It is good to see someone else using xPL and slimserver.
I have just rebuilt my xpl setup as the 486 (!!!) box xplhal/WindowsNT
were on died a few months back (fan made horrible noise....thought it
was time to consolidate onto one server to save the environment!!).
I am now having a problem with my xpl/slimserver setup. Every remote
keypress is transmitted twice. I have xpl IR output set as 'raw' not 'both'.
What is strange is that this does not happen with the standard
squeezebox remote, only with 3rd party remotes (my DVD remote and my
universal remote).
This is not a problem for must purposes. However I have it setup so that
a keypress brightens a lamp - every time I press it it increases the
brightness by 2 'units' because the IR signal is transmitted twice.
I am currently using 6.5b1 deb package (about 1 1/2 months old). I
/think/ last time I had it working I was on a 6.2. Has there been any
changes to the IR/xpl firmware/code??
The only other thing that has changed in my setup is that I am now using
Ubuntu rathere than mandrake and that xplhal is running in windows
2000 in a VMware virtual machine. (no decent xpl/x10 support in linux yet)
Thanks for any help
lostboy wrote:
Peter, I don't mean to hijack your thread but thought it worth
mentioning the xPL interface already built into Slimserver. Which can
also provide effectively the same functionality and potentially much
greater flexibility and extensibility.
I use the xPL interface to control power (through an X10 switch) to one
of my amplifiers dependent upon the status of the accompanying
Squeezebox.
xPL is an open, community supported, automation comms protocol designed
to operate across a variety of media, including TCP/IP networks. See
www.xplproject.org.uk for details. You will see that you can install
xPL applications on both windows and Linux machines (and there's a Java
version as well!), and that interfaces are available for x10 controllers
(CM11/12, W800RF32) and many other devices. I understand that a Z-wave
interface is also in the works. xPL HAL is the automation controller
that receives xPL messages and triggers simple or complex responses
based upon really easily defined user scripts. You don't need to
understand Perl to make this work!
Where Peter's plugin wins over xPL is that there isn't a firecracker
interface for xPL (but as it's a community supported protocol there's
nothing stopping anyone from writing one).
Chris
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