Hello,
I'm now going to put some effort in plugin for connection to Misterhouse
(great home automation programme: www.misterhouse.com). Since I'm more or
less newbie to Freevo and python would kindly ask for some guidance in my
work.
For a start I'd like to discuss few technical things:
About connection:
Misterhouse has already built in remote client functionality. It
basically goes like this: connection is done throught TCP port. At the start
Misterhouse sends all its commands organized in menus. Later Misterhouse can
report on events/receive commands through this port.
Freevo side:
I wonder what would be best to do:
- how can I easily implement tcp port client (maybe through
twisted) ?
- I'd like to have:
- special "idlebar like" plugin at the bottom of screen
to display more important info from Misterhouse
(probably idlebar plugin is best start....
- special plugin that should listen/talk to TCP port and
update some sort of local data structure that
holds local copy of all data sent by Misterhouse. What are possibilities
for that and for making global data structure ?
- separate menu group, that could also have item plugins
(for instance for light to switch
on/off/dim). How to do that as easy as possible ? Where to put item plugins
if they are possible at all for custom
menu groups.
I kindly ask if anyone has any similar code to this and is willing to share
his work. Also any other advice will be more than helpful...
Regards,
Robert.
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