Re: Homeseer and XLobby

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm working this through with Gareth offline, it does work for me (the
HS / xLobby linkage) although I have hit a slight issue with the just
released V3 XLobby plugin but that's not the issue currently.  I'm
hoping we can get it working although Gareth is constrained to using an
older version of HomeSeer (V1.7) as he needs the Comfort plugin which
only works on V1 HomeSeer. A lot of work was done in the V2 compatible
xAP plugin for HomeSeer and there were many new features, bug fixes, and
better ways of doing things that had previously required a lot of
workarounds.  As such the V1 xAP HomeSeer plugin is really now
'frozen/as is' and the development focus is on the V2 current version.
I hope we can get it going Gareth but it would be much preferred to get
you onto a current version of HomeSeer.  Will update here hopefully with
a positive outcome...

Kevin

Kevin Hawkins wrote:
> I have just seen that Pierre has released a new version 3 xAP plugin
for
> XLobby - I didn't know about this so I'm just now getting up to speed.
> I can see where there was some confusion in how I thought you were
> seeing xAP messages :-)
>
> xAP Plugin for XLobby v3 thread
> http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3656
>
> K
>
> Kevin Hawkins wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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