RE: Re: Newbie questions

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You could also delay starting of the other apps - I do that here by
using a free utility called delayexec.exe - that way, the loading order of
apps can be guaranteed by writing a small batch file.

Paul.



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Behalf Of Kevin Hawkins
> Sent: 15 December 2008 00:47
> To: xap_automation@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [xap_automation] Re: Newbie questions
>
> --- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "bdstl06" <bdstl06@...>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm using four, blue, housebot and xfx-Express hub.  With some
> initial
> > experimentation, I was able to see blue interact correctly with
> > housebot (XP, HB) by detecting messages from another computer
(Vista,
> > Blue, xfx-hub) with a bluetooth dongle, creating devices
> corresponding
> > to attached detected devices, etc.
> >
> > I've since done two things that haven't worked or that I don't
> > understand.  First, I installed xfx-Express hub on the HB XP
> computer.
> > It reports that that it can't bind to the socket on the local
host
> > (alreadyinuse).  Any ideas?
>
> The hub must be the first xAP application that starts on any machine.
>  ie it must start before HouseBot or Four.  The message it is giving
> indicates another xAP applications has started before it.
> Installing xFX Express as a service is strongly recommended as then
> it's always started before any applications.
>
> If a xAP application appears deaf (isn't seeing incoming messages) it
> is a good sign that the hub isn't working.  All xAP applications can
> send messages without requiring a hub.
>
>
> >
> > Second, I installed four on the HB computer.  It works, but shows
no
> > interaction with HB.  Should it?  My intention here is to
establish a
> > twitter based family messaging capability (SMS and
housebot-based),
> but
> > admittedly I'm currently just playing to get a feel for the right
way
> > to implement this capability.  I thought four would show up in HB
as
> a
> > device.
>
> I'm not overly familiar with Four but HouseBot only automatically
> creates devices from xAP devices that are using the BSC schema.
>
> You can manually create devices that are linked with individual
> parameter values within any xAP schema by using a xAP Listener device
> (Create device > requires hardware interface > xAP > etc). 
Likewise
> you can build non NSC schema messages to send by using a xAP Sender
> device.
>
> HouseBot has a great help section on the various xAP devices which
> should help you as you delve further here.
>
>   Cheers Kevin
> >
> > Thanks for any thoughts.
> >
> > Bryan
> >
>
>
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