Re: Homeseer and XLobby

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gareth Cook wrote:
> OK, I'm stuck !
>
> I have Homeseer (been running for years), and never used XLobby
before.
>
Quick familiarisation/basics check.

1) Are HomeSeer and XLobby running on the same machine ?
2) Have you a xAP hub installed and running as the very *first* xAP
application to start (i.e. before XLobby and HomeSeer) ?  Which hub are
you using ?
3) This is ver 2 Homeseer ? (and the V2 xAP plugin as well)
4) Ensure you have a way of seeing xAP messages (which I think you
already do have) - and if so can you see in the left hand pane of Viewer
(or GUI hub) the two devices 'homeseer' and 'XLobby'  ?>

> I've installed the plugin in XLobby, and it seems to be working -
there a
> re a ton of messages in the xap plugin. I THINK it's receiving Comfort
PIR
> movement as xap messages into XLobby.
>
Where are you 'seeing' these messages and what device are they coming
from (the source line in the xap message) ?  I am not quite sure what
you have configured in either XLobby or HomeSeer yet to set this up ?
> All I want to do is trigger Comfort/CBUS devices via homeseer from
xlobby.
> I presume I'll need to trigger HomeSeer events in order to do this.
>
I can't help on the Comfort bit but I am thinking what you would do here
is set up a button in XLobby that sent a xAP BSC message to a
corresponding device in Homseer (probably a virtual device you have set
up FTTB) - then HomeSeer would run a script which would alter something
in Comfort (perhaps this is a counter ??) which would pass this on to
C-Bus. I am not sure how the C-Bus mapping is done via Comfort.  In my
setup XLObby directly controls C-Bus so the  XLobby>HomeSeer and
HomeSeer>Comfort and Comfort>C-Bus step is not needed.  But it should
all work, its just a longer chain.  First step is to get your button in
XLObby changing a device in HomeSeer - let's focus on that for now.
> Anyone got a sample set of configs I could use to just slap on and see
> whats what ? It could be my total lack of understanding of xlobby of
> course on how to send out a valid formed xap message.
>
HomeSeer doesnt work that way  - all the device info is kept in an
Access DB now and I don't believe XLobby does either.    Do you see xAP
messages when you press the XLObby button you created ?

K