Re: xAP Conduit and turning off Homeseer xap-x10 Events

["paul6138" <p.peard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, James Traynor <james@...>
wrote:
>
> paul6138 wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I have had reason to go back over my config lately and chase down
a
> > few things that either need sorting out or I didn't understand.
> >
> > Anyway, I would like to know how to stop xap conduit sending xap-
> > x10.events for every device change, I have configured it to stop
> > sending bsc and homeseer messages from the gui, but these others
seem
> > to stay
> >
> >
> Hi,
> the x10.events is a builtin function of the plugin and can't
currently
> be disabled. I'll add an option to do this though as well as some
method
> of enabling it per device.
> > Also - while I am posting - can anyone explain the Device Change
> > Events section in conduit setup - I tried deleting the
autocreated
> > one for the device I am testing with (D5) but it made no
difference.
> >
> The guides are hs1 but the logic is the same for hs2
> http://www.mi4.biz/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=28
> http://www.mi4.biz/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=30
> The original concept of these events was to quickly trigger events
based
> on xAP data. HS1 was quite slow at receiving, processing and
outputting
> a change and these events allowed the plugin to run things quickly
> outside of HS. xAP Variables are pretty much the same as a HS
devices.
> They get updated by xAP information and can trigger events.  xAP
Events
> are sequences of instructions that make it easy to generate xAP
> commands. The idea is you don't need to know how to make a xAP
message
> you can just pick 'display message' and fill in a few boxes.Device
> change events are the same as xap events just triggered by changes
in a
> HS device.
>
> hth
> James
>

James, the writeup of the events and vars helps - thanks, the
x10events stuff is not a major issue - but I would like to only have
traffic from things I am interested in flying around the network.

Cheers

Paul