Re: xap homeseer plugin

["pjeitler" <patrick@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for answering. This looks promising. I will give it a try.

Patrick


--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, James Traynor <james@...> wrote:
>
> Ok, third time lucky. Yahoo seems to be eating my emails.  Apologies
if
> you've got this twice before hand!
>
> Hi,
>
> When the plugin deals with a BSC device, such as x10,cbus,netiom, you
> will find the state changing as expected from 2,3,4 to represent the
> usual on,off and dim states.
> When it handles other schemas, like the message.display from
zoneminder,
> it has to deal with them as text devices. This is why the state never
> changes from 17 as it's not on or off or dim. What you'll need to do
is
> trigger a HS event on a device status change and use a simple script
to
> read the new value of the status text and trigger whatever is needed.
>
> I am looking at 'fudging' the text parsing so it could change the
device
> value/state but it's gets quite tricky when dealing with the possibly
> limitless variations of data that could be provided.
>
> hth
> James
> pjeitler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed the MI4 Homesser pluging and I am having one
> > particular problem:
> >
> > Even though the xAP device shows a status change on the HS status
> > screen, I can't trigger an event from that device change.
> >
> > I am using Zoneminder to send xAP messages when a camera detects
motion.
> > Using the HS xAP plugin, I created a device that shows the alarm
> > status. It shows "off" when no motion is detected and
"on" when motion
> > is there. I created an HS Event with a trigger based on the xAP
Device
> > changing to  "on", but it never triggers. When I query
the device with
> > hs.devicestatus, it returns 17 (unknown). If I set this device to
on
> > or off manually using a script, my event triggers fine.
> >
> > I am wondering if the xAP pluging actually changes the device
values
> > and/or status or if it just changes the device string?
> >
> > Any advice on how I can get this to work would be greatly
appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
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