RE: Re: xAP HomeSeer plugin - Released

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, bitten by the bug, I've now installed a hub and a copy of watcher on
every PC in the house...

I've installed a copy of watcher-viewer on my main workstation, and that
all
seems to be working OK. - I can see all my PC's in the viewer display.
(note: is the refresh interval configurable?)

I'm a smidgeon concerned about the Homeseer plugin's actions in response to
this though...

As expected, every time I started the watcher service on one of the PC's,
the homeseer plugin launched the new hardware wizard... The very first time
it did this, it said the device was unknown and offered the "update
schema"
or "Raw xAP" mode options.... I tried update first, - no change,
so I then
tried the raw option, which produced the list of selectable items in the
main window.. I changed the default selections to those I wanted, and
selected the "create Devices" button (leaving the location at the
default of
"xAP Conduit").....

Trouble is, I don't have any new devices in Homeseer, nor do I have a new
location called "xAP conduit"...

Each of the other PC's matched the device straight away, so I didn't get
the
"unknown" and the "raw" steps to deal with, I jumped
immediately to pressing
the "create devices" button.

None of them however have created any Homeseer devices.....

So what have I done wrong then?....

TIA

Paul G.

PS, should I direct this thread to another forum?



>From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: xAP HomeSeer plugin - Released
>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:58:04 -0000
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>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@p...> wrote:
> > Ah, thanks.
> >
> > should I infer then, that the Homeseer plugin won't automatically
be
>a hub
> > if it is the first xapplication to run on the box, - which I
kinda
>thought
> > was "normal" behaviour for xAP apps?....
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>It isn't the "normal" behaviour.
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>From memory, the only developer who does this as standard is his apps
>is Stuart Booth - www.xapframework.net.
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>His stuff is all written in .NET so componentisation is easy for him -
>those of us writing in VB6 / Java / Python etc. are just writing
>lightweight xAPplications rather than having a full hub implementation
>in every app.
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>M.
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