Re: Fw: Touchscreen (DIY) + Comfort + HomeSeer

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth Cook wrote:

>Well, I've sort of got XLobby with xAP working - I think ! Some
>instructions wouldnt go amis...
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yes - I know - Those are always the hardest bit to deliver and the
plugin author is French too !

>I've got the HomeSeer xAP Plugin installed - and it's detected
>something/some sort of event. So looking good so far.
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It's obvioulsy hearing xAP messages OK then so that's good progress.

> Again, what we now
>need is the ability of the HomeSeer plugin to send "KB x"
commands to the
>UCM.
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I dont use the Comfort xAP conduit or the HomeSeer Comfort plugin so
I'll have to leave this to Patrick to address. HomeSeer can send any xAP
message so as long as the Comfort xAP conduit supports this I guess it
will work, or a direct linkage between HS and Comfort if you're using
the HS plugin version.  . It may require a certain featureset within the
UCM firmware (min version) of course.

>Next is the be able to get xAP to send HomeSeer a signal to send on
that
>command - it only seems to support 4 HomeSeer commands, so it all
depends
>on getting the plugin to play ball.
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Not quite sure what you're meaning here - you can send any xAP message
and get HomeSeer to act upon it (or indeed any particular parameter(s)
within the message). There are a limited number of HomeSeer specific xAP
schema message like 'speak' etc but you dont need to use these, HS hears
everything that happens xAP wise .  As you can map any xAP message (and
any parameter within that messge) to a HomeSeer 'device' then you can
action / trigger anything in HomeSeer (a macro/script) based on that
device being updated  or changing state. There are a few 'how to's on
James site re this I believe.   Bear in mind HS has a large scripting
language (and copious documentation) to accomplish almost anything and
XLobby buttons can be directly linked to HomeSeer devices to both
trigger events and provide status feedback. Hence pushing buttons on
XLobby could send keypresses to Comfort if that is supported via teh
connector/plugin and the UCM firmware. At the moment I would take the
XLobby bit (and maybe even xAP) out of the equation and initially get
HomeSeer interacting with Comfort as you intend - you dont really need
xAP to accomplish that bit if you use the Comfort Homeseer plugin
(rather than the xAP Comfort connector).  Also any native device plugin
to HomeSeer can have all it's 'events/status' exposed to xAP (as  a BSC
device) and can often be controlled via xAP - if the plugin is
implemented to action changes when its 'device' is updated in HomeSeer..

Always happy to help on the xAP groups....

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xap_automation
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xAP_developer/

Kevin

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>----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 16/11/2005 21:33 -----
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>Just for interest noticed  some example screenshots of Xlobby linked to
>HomeSeer via xAP - it doesn't bring in the Comfort  side but it does
>show some of what can be achieved. C-Bus for example could also drop
>right in.  One of the beauties of XLobby is realtime updates rather
than
>page refreshes of a HomeSeer based web page.
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>http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=107192
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