Re: Fw: Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer plug in working ?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Gareth,

I'm using Particks Homeseer plugin with Homeseer build 1.5.68 with no 
problems....

Perhaps a complete uninstall & reinstall would help...

Paul G.



>From: "Gareth Cook/UK/IBM" <gcook@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer
plug in 
>working ?
>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:56:14 +0100
>
>Right - now that my meagre brain has grasped the concept of the
value
>channging to 1 and then 0 4 seconds later, I can get that working.
>
>BUT !
>
>I'm using build 152 (build38) and it works fine. I want to use some
>scripts that require build 39 or later. Ive tried build 60 , but
the
>Comfort plugin barfs totally (homeseer exits). Another build just gives
me
>runtime 13 errors and no more comfort plugin action occurs (normal
>homeseer operations continue)
>
>Now I know this isnt my fault !
>
>G.
>
>
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>----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 12/07/2002 21:59 -----
>
>Discussion
>Main Topic
>
>"PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>
>Today 11:13
>
>.
>Subject:
>.
>[ukha_d] Re: Has ANYONE got the Comfort <> Homeseer plug in
working ?
>.
>Category:
>
>
>
>I missed the start of this thread (hectic life etc). For those who
>don't know, I wrote the comfort plug-in.
>
>There have been one or two reports of weirdness - which usually
turn
>out to be comfort related (it seems very idiosyncratic) - but I
know
>there are many (tens of) happy users out there.
>
>As I tried to explain to Gareth in e-mail previously, the following
>is spot on the money, and is also covered in the docs IIRC.
>
> >   > You do realise that the plugin reports the
status of the Zones
>as 0
> >   > or 1, not as ON and OFF. The Homeseer events do
NOT respond when
> >   you
> >   > are looking for a status of ON or OFF. You need
to trigger
>events
> >   > using the option to check for a change in
VALUE.
>
>The reason for this is that sensors can report intermediate values
>other than just on and off - although the UCM has limited support
for
>this at present. The Homeseer API is sufficiently brain dead to be
>unable to support the concept of an "On"/"Off"
threshold/value - so I
>didn't have a choice.
>
> >   > While this works nicely if you're just checking
for a change in
> >   > value, I can't get it to work if I want a
conditional trigger.
>e.g.
> >   a
> >   > change in value AND it's after sunset.
> >   >
> >   > I hope this helps with your problem. Perhaps
someone can help
>with
> >   > mine?
> >   >
>
>If I've understood what you want to achieve, then this is possible
>too, I think.
>
>Within Homeseer:
>
>From Event Properties page, in Description pane, select event
"Type"
>as "By condition".
>
>The should change the bottom pane to indicate "Trigger when all
of
>the given conditions are true".
>
>Multiple conditions can then be added through the dialogue.
>
>Gary, I will send you a screen shot when I have access to a decent
>net connection.
>
>
>Patrick
>
>
>
>
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