Re: Re: xAP HomeSeer plugin - Released

["max barker" <max.adamiec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The great thing about the slimserver connector and homeseer xapps in
particular, is the xap homeseer IR events. If you have a learning remote,
like a pronto, or just a spare one lying around, you can learn some dummy
codes in slimserver and set the homeseer xap conduit to react to them by
changing device status, triggering events, running scripts... pretty much
whatever you want :-)
Slimp3/squeezebox has just become an universal HA IR input! IR control of
X10, Comfort, Homevision, CBUS... pretty much anything is easy to set up.

Quick how-to with "learning" codes here
http://www.mi4.biz/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=31

Also with homeseer it's now very easy to push OSD information to the
Slimp3/squeezebox. Device changes, current status, timed notifications,
etc.

Max
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Gordon
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:17 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: xAP HomeSeer plugin - Released


>    >
>
>      Paul - just a  thought - if you are running xPLHAL on the same
>machine then you can enable the xAP hub within that application, that's
>quite a good path to go if you are using both xPL and xAP in a mixed
>environment as you can script interaction bewteen the two in xPLHAL.
Make
>sure the hub(s) start before any xPL or xAP applications (otherwise
later
>launched applications will appear to be deaf). If the HS plugin is the
only
>xAP application then you don't need a hub.
>

Thanks Kevin. I haven't yet looked at xPLHAL, although it is (somewhere) on
my to-do list.... but currently the Homeseer plugin is the only x??
application running....


>      To initially play I would suggest downloading xAP Weather from
>www.mi4.biz  (as it needs no extra hardware)or perhaps xAP Slim
connector
>from www.xapframework.net if you have a SliMP3 or Squeezebox.  These
are
>two
>good demo 'input' applications, the Slim connector giving you some IR
>triggers as well. Following on from that for 'output' I would introduce
xAP
>Watcher or for a really flashy display environment with the floating
>transparent windows xAP Desktop from www.mi4.biz. The Slim connector
will
>already offer you a full queue managed display environment for those
>players.  If you have a Meteor CID unit then that also makes a nice
>introduction and there is an appropriate 'pop up' display template
already
>in xAP Desktop.
>

I do have a SLIMP3, although currently (temporarily) not in use. - I
replaced it with a miniITX PC in the kitchen and will redeploy the Slim in
the bedroom (the only room in the house that doesn't have a PC in it!).
I've
got as far as downloading several of the xAP apps, including most of those
you mention, - nothing installed yet though... :-(


>      The xAP Automation list
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xap_automation/
will provide the best help
>forum for the many new xAP users that will emerge through the HomeSeer
>integration . The plugin has made a great start with documentation this
>time
>(well done James) and there will be more 'how to's ' appearing shortly
as
>people play. One of the great things about the HS Pluging is not only
that
>all xAP devices become integrated as HomeSeer devices but the reverse
is
>true - any HomeSeer device becomes a xAP device - so all those plugins
for
>HS now offer xAP interaction too :-)  This provides for many
alternative
>ways to solve your integration needs - just what xAP is intended to do.
>

Do you know if the xAP conduit will be offerred via the Homeseer Updater? -
that would probably bring it to the attention of quite a few more people!

And I have been thinking about doing a Homeseer plugin for my Panny Plasma
serial interface....





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