Re: Digiguide / Homeseer

["abay_aromire" <danlesaint@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David

I am following with interest your discussions on Digiguide and
Homesser. What televisions can Homeseer control and how do I
configure Homeseer to control the tv e.g. switch it on from standby
when the house is unoccupied to simulate occupancy.

Abay

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "David Pullen" <dpullen@f...> wrote:
> James
>
> I just checked and the scripting add-in is available from
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/julian.cable/DGscript.html
>
> There is some documentation with it and some example scripts. If you
> just want to trigger an event/switch a device then you won't need to
> write to any files. I use some of my scripts to get programme
> information into Homeseer. You can, of course, use this mechanism to
> start everything up if homeseer can control your TV, etc.
>
> David
>
>
>    Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:04:13 +0100
>    From: "David Pullen" <dpullen@f...>
> Subject: RE: Digiguide / Homeseer
>
> James
>
> I do this by using the Digiguide vbscript interface. You can set
> digiguide to run vb scripts in the scripting.ini file based on
different
> triggers, e.g. programme starting, reminder fired, etc. I write the
> relevant data to files and then execute a homeseer command line
(e.g.
> "hsc.exe -x t10 on" from the .vbs that toggles a device on.
Homeseer
> then runs a script to pick up the information from the files. A bit
> convoluted I know but it has worked flawlessly for nearly a year.
If you
> need any assistance with this let me know.
>
> David
>
>    Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:36:12 -0000
>    From: "James Ingham" <james.ingham@o...>
> Subject: Digiguide / Homeseer
>
>
> Has anyone figureds out a way to make a Digiguide reminder alarm to
> trigger an event in Homeseer...i.e. I set an alarm on Digiguide to
> remind me to watch "Home Front" say (!), and this then
triggers
> Homeseer to quickly switch my front room lights on and off ?
>
> TIA!
> James