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RE: Xlobby, Xap and Homevision


  • Subject: RE: Xlobby, Xap and Homevision
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:07:29 +0100

Yeah - I was definitely very anti-HS pricing - most plugins are then
extra on top :( Mind you, there is a really good range of supported kit and
the tech support seems good. It is an excellent bit of software so far -
everything I have is now happily talking to each other.

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Marcus Warrington
> Sent: 12 July 2006 21:30
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xlobby, Xap and Homevision
>
> Paul..
>
> I'll take a look at Homeseer, but I was *trying* to acheive this
without
> spending more money :)
>
> Marcus
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gale
> 	Sent: 12 July 2006 16:00
> 	To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> 	Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Xlobby, Xap and Homevision
>
>
>
> 	I did the same recently but using MainLobby. It's really great
> when all the systems actually come together and are reportable and
> controllable from one place :)
>
> 	xAP plugin for HomeVision was written by Mark Harrison but it
> has a bit of a memory leak so I never got it working properly. In the
> end I bought HomeSeer (bit expensive) and now use the HomeVision
plugin
> and the xAP HS plugin to achieve a great result. I'd really recommend
> this route - it works very well.
>
> 	Paul.
>
> 	> -----Original Message-----
> 	> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On
> Behalf Of
> 	> Marcus Warrington
> 	> Sent: 12 July 2006 14:47
> 	> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> 	> Subject: [ukha_d] Xlobby, Xap and Homevision
> 	>
> 	> I had a major breakthrough (for me) last night and have now
> actually
> 	> managed to setup a new screen in the xlobby skin that allows
> me to turn
> 	> the hall light on and off via X10 (using xap and
> xap-x10-connector).
> 	>
> 	> Still a long way to go but it made me whoop out load with
> joy.. funny
> 	> SWMBO didn't seem quite as impressed as me when I showed her..
> probably
> 	> something to do with us still having no bathroom fitted while
> I'm
> 	> "wasting time" finding new ways to turn the lights on
and off
> :)
> 	>
> 	> Next job is to figure out how to store the X10 address' in
> xlobby
> 	> variables rather than hardcoded events and then to integrate
> with
> 	> HomeVision so xlobby can reflect the current light status,
> ignoring the
> 	> fact that Homevision can't track locally controlled lights but
> one day I
> 	> may buy Franks Probe Kit :)
> 	>
> 	> So my question is does anyone know where I can download a xap
> connector
> 	> for homevision ? I can find references to it but no actual
> download
> 	> links.
> 	>
> 	> Marcus
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