Re: xAP Newbie

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

That was perfect. Gives me a much better idea of the glue and how
things hang together. I've seen schema examples but never quite been
sure how to trigger them. Time to start playing!

Cheers

Paul

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "JamesTraynor"
<james.traynor@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This should be nice and simple, not entirely point and click but
> pretty close.  Step one is to get the xAP plugin installed into the
> slimserver, details here:
> http://www.edjo.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edward/xAP/Slim/slim_main.htm
> Next step is all in xAP Blue as blue not only does the bluetooth
stuff
> but it also has a simple event system.  This will allow you to
> generate a message when a certain mobile turns up, which in this
case
> will be a display message. You can always use a bigger app to do
this
> such as Floorplan,HomeSeer,Misterhouse etc. but in this case might
as
> well stick with Blue.  When Blue is running, find the number of the
> mobile in question. Open the Events/Found folder and open the text
> file with the same number
>
> Add this to it at the bottom.
> <start>
> Type=message.display
> Target=>
> L1=Paul's Back
> L2=Put the kettle on
> Duration=20
> <end>
>
> No need to restart Blue, and now when you mobile is seen a
> displaymessage is sent by blue. That message will appear on the
> Slimp3/squeezebox.  If you also loaded the Intranet Launcher,
mi4.biz,
> you would also get a popup on screen too. It appears everywhere as
teh
> Target is set to > , which means all, but you could set it to a
> specific device only if you wanted to limit where the message is
> displayed.
> While all this is going on Blue will also be sending messages using
a
> standard xAP schema called BSC which lots of apps use as a basic way
> of talking and any other app you may have loaded which supports BSC
> will also see the event.
>
> Oh, to make life easier you should install a xAP hub on every PC
> running xAP software.
> http://www.xapautomation.org/index.php?title=Hubs
. Hubs alow
messages
> to be shared within a single PC, once the hub are installed you can
> just forget about them as they just run in the background. You only
> need a hub when running more than one piece of software but
hopefully
> you soon will be and you might as well start off installing them
>
> HTH
>
> James
>
> --- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Paul Bendall" <paul@>
wrote:
> >
> > I'm very new to the xAP implementation, but want to learn more.
My main
> > HA system is Idratek and I am aware this is now xAP capable.
> >
> > However, for starters I would like to understand how I could
achievev
> > the following objective:
> > - xAP Blue "sees" my mobile phone approach
> > - xAP Blue uses xAP interface to Squeezebox / Squeezecenter
> > - Message is displayed on Squeezebox 3 (i.e Paul is home)
> >
> > How do I achieve the above? What do I need to form the logic and
send
> > the message?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Paul
> >
>



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