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Re: X10 and xAP
- Subject: Re: X10 and xAP
- From: "Keith Finnett" <keith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:19:41 -0000
Hi all,
Is it possible to do a similar trick using ASP(.NET)? I'd like to
create a page on my IIS server to control xAP (receiving and sending
messages) but haven't found any documentation on how this could be
achieved.
Thanks,
Keith
--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "mark_harrison_uk2"
<mph@a...> wrote:
>
> --- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Andrew Jones"
> <andrewjjones@l...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone, I was pointed to xAP from someone on UKHA.
>
> That would have been me. Welcome :-)
>
> > What I am trying to do is write a website (hopefully in php)
that
> > will control my X10 modules. At the moment though I just want to
> > get something working offline.
> >
> > I have downloaded and installed the message sender
> > (Send-v1.2.8.1.zip) and X10 connector
> > (X10-CM1xConnector_GUI-v1.0.1587.36821.zip). But now what
> > do I do? I have tried to make a text file to be sent
> > with the sender:
>
> I use Patrick Lidstone's CM12 connector, which may function
slightly
> differently. However, I see some differences in my .xap file to
yours
>
> >
> > {
> > v=12
> > hop=1
> > uid=FF182000
> > class=xap-x10.request
> > source=acme.my.controller
>
> Everything up to here looks good.
>
> > target=X10-CM1xConnector
> > }
> >
>
> The target doesn't look right. I have
>
> > target=Rocket.C12U.home
>
> You then continue
>
> > xap-x10.request
> > {
> > command=(on)
> > device=(A1)
> > }
>
> XAP-X10.request
> {
> Command=OFF
> Device=A1
> }
>
> .... ie there are no parentheses around the (on) and the (A1).
>
> It is possible that this is subtlety of difference between what
> Patrick's connector expects and what the one you have expects, but
> it's also possible that this is a typo :-)
>
> > but when I send it, nothing happens. The message doesn't even
come
> > up in the X10 GUI. It doesn't look too compicated, but how do I
> > find out what the target should be, and what about the UID?
>
> The target will (probably) look like:
>
> vendor.software.instance
>
> Vendor will be a codeword allocated to the person who wrote that
bit
> of software. (Patrick uses "rocket", my code uses
"Scentium".)
>
> Software will be the name that the vendor has given the
application,
> in this case the CM12U application.
>
> Instance will probably be configurable somewhere within the X10
> application.
>
> In order to work out what the TARGET is, you could look at the
SOURCE
> that the X10 connector is sending _from_. This should appear in the
> heartbeats. To watch all the messages, it's well worth downloading
> Stuart Booth's "GUI message viewer" from
www.xapframework.net -
it's
> amazing how useful that is as a debugging tool.
>
> > Thanks for any help :)
>
>
>
> .... oh, and for what it's worth, I cgi-out to a baby PERL routine
as
> follows. The PERL routine is called xapbed.cgi. I have stored a
bunch
> of pre-canned xAP messages called things like beddark.xap (which,
> spookily, turns off the lights in the master bedroom.)
>
> The PHP then simply calls :
>
> .... <A
HREF="../cgi-bin/xapbed.cgi?beddark.xap">Off</A><p>
>
> It's all a bit of a cludge. I mean to re-write it so that it
> META-EQUIV returns to the same place :-) Of course, what I should
> _really_ do is just put some external calls straight into the
PHP :-)
>
> The PERL follows
>
> ------------------------
>
> #!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> print "<HEAD>\n";
> $xapcall="xap-send.exe ".$ENV{"QUERY_STRING"};
> print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Refresh\"
CONTENT=\"0;URL=\\bedroom.php\">";
> system $xapcall > null ;
> print "\n</HEAD>";
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