peterw;202774 Wrote: 
> Have you looked at my BottleRocket plugin info? The code isn't so
> beautiful, but I've extended it from amp power control to more general
> appliance/lighting control. My HA is very primitive, but I had the same
> basic thought as you -- why not use the Slim remote and SB display as
> another HA controller? Why walk to the wall switch when the Slimserver
> host can issue the commands?
> 
> A while back I gave some thought to making the hardware control more
> generic so that it would be able to control more than just X10 modules
> (the only plug-in lamp module I like uses ZWave), but I never did any
> work towards that. Heck, I haven't yet officially released a version
> that runs on Windows.
> 
> But imagine being able to use macro/scene choices in addition to
> specific device codes, supporting more than x10/firecracker, and maybe
> sprucing up the web configuration screens. Is that sort of what you
> have in mind?
> 
> Windows -- ick. There does appear to be some *nix source for Insteon
> controllers (http://www.linuxha.com/athome/common/iplcd/), so it looks
> like you should be able to achieve cross-platform support.
> 
Hey Peter-

Yeah, I saw posts regarding your Bottlerocket plugin, but never looked
much into it since it required Linux and didn't support Insteon.  I
guess I'm looking at something fairly similar to what you have, but for
Insteon.  I came across the "Smart Home Device Manager" which runs on
Windows and allows Insteon (and X10 I believe) control via HTTP calls. 


I'm pretty familiar with making plugins that do HTTP calls
(SuperDateTime) so it shouldn't be that hard to make something.  I'm
not sure how fancy I'm going to go as the stuff gets pretty time
consuming.  I'm also torn if I should just jump right into 7.0.  I
haven't upped my home server to 7.0 and that's where I'd like to use
everything.  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'll have to look at your code and see how easy it'd be to add Insteon
stuff or to start from scratch.  Given one runs on Linux and one in
Windows makes it a bit complicated.  Yeah I know "why Windows"... I
probably should have gone with Linux, but I don't have to time to
rebuild everything and there are probably a bunch of Windows users out
there that would benefit from the plugin.


> 
> P.S. I'm only half-way done (if that) porting FuzzyTime to 7.x, but it
> looks like SuperDateTime 5.5.0 uses the dateformat API just as it
> should. :-)

Cool beans!  I added the code and just crossed my fingers that I did it
right. :)

-Greg


-- 
GoCubs
------------------------------------------------------------------------
GoCubs's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=312
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35370

_______________________________________________
plugins mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins

Reply via email to