On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Kevin O <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dean,
>
> Both modules are aimed to provide libraries for controlling those devices
> over your local network. You could use the modules on a server or for local
> control of the devices.
>
> If you have an Elk M1 controller and the M1XEP (network) expansion, you
> can connect to it over a TCP connection. The Elk sends event messages to
> you over the connection and allows you to send control messages in. The
> messages are all defined in their proprietary ASCII protocol.
>
> My module parses incoming message and encodes outgoing messages. The
> module also has functions to connect to your device and inherits from
> EventEmitter to allow you to listen to certain event messages coming from
> the Elk...i.e. a burgular alarm or a door opening.
>
> I have a small server on my home network with node running. I've been
> playing with some alerting based on incoming event messages using the
> module.
>
> Also cool in that module is the speak() function I implemented. The Elk M1
> has a huge library of words it can say over its speaker. I implemented the
> function so that you can write an entire sentence and the module will parse
> and encode all of the words, then send to your Elk. Example:
>
> *elk.speak('intruder in outside hottub');*
> *
> *
> *elk.speak('outside temperature is 74 degrees');*
>
> Hope that helps!
>
I think you were directing this to Mark? I was just chiming in with a bit
of snark.
However...I actually happen to have my entire house wired w/ Insteon and
haven't had the time to write an interface to the crappy little ezserv I
bought a while back. So I'm really looking forward to seeing what your libs
can do -- may be the kick in the ass I need to finally get going on that
project.
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