RE: Re: Vendor ID request

[Tony T]

> I just visited the xapautomation website and had to register
> although I'm sure I registered for something in the past.
> Once I was logged in I searched for Vendor ID's just to make
> sure and couldnt find anything. I also couldnt find anything
> about registering an ID on the xAP mailing list either.
>
> I vaugely remember something about it in the past but as I
> said, I got lost in xAP and didnt have the time to follow it.

Not sure where it is myself.
But rest assured KAT5 xpl vendor id is defintely yours.

>
> >From what I have seen of xPL so far, it already addresses what I
> >considered
> to be the most confusing part of xAP. That of targetting messages.
>

Hopefully people will find all of xpl simpler.

> For instance, if I have a KAT5 receiver or Keypad and either
> an IR command or a key is pressed I want a message sent with
> ZoneID=xx ZoneSrc=yy and for the switcher to respond to that
> and let the person in Zone XX view source YY.
>

You can definetly do that.
I have an app for sending ir commands to redrat2's
It sends
Zone=<instance of receiving redrat>
Device=<description of device e.g. dvdchanger>
Button=<description of button e.g. power on>
It allows the button and device tags to be repeated, for multiple
commands
And for each device you can specifiy multiple buttons

It's working great.
I have a wireless pda accessing my intranet and I can press a picture of
a dvd
And it loads it into the dvd changer and starts playing.

> xAP seemed to get bogged down in chucking loads of
> information out without anything specifically recieving it.

Weve tried to keep xpl as minimal as possible.

Regards
Tony