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Per your request, I have made a plugin for HouseBot that allows you to define DDE devices. http://users.planetcable.net/pzand/ddedevices.zip The concept is similar to HouseBot's own IRDevices; you make an XML file (example in the zip) that describes the device you want to make, and add an instance o...

DDE could be easy, although I've never done much with it. Do you only want to read values? Or would you want to write them also? How flexible do you need this?

Hey guys, After looking at hardware interface and software device code for 5 hours today, I'm sorry to tell you that I don't think this is going to happen. Not anything time soon anyway :( For those of you who have read through (and grasped the concept of the C SDKs): the whole deal with sending Int...

I have to admit I've been preoccupied with other things lately, which means I haven't done any coding on this. Sorry :? Why couldn't you do this Delphi directly? All it takes is a DLL that exports the right functions... Probably easier than implementing a COM interface! I know Delphi can do this... ...

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Hehehe... You have the same plans as I do. And (perhaps not unlike you) I may never get there! Gotta dream, though... :D I did get to the point of hooking a DS1820 to a PIC16F84 and a little $5 RF transmitter. I was going to have a whole bunch of those and a receiver on the PC end... Yet another unf...

wow... this is a really cool project! I've been wanting to do something like this, but never got around to it. It looks like there are a lot of ways to go about this. In all honesty, I think using DDE or UDP broadcasts is probably even easier than going the actual serial route. DDE works well locall...

Cool project 8) I think the advantage of the hardware interfaces comes from the fact that different software devices are able to use the same hardware interface. A hardware interface would be the 1-wire port, and you could have various software devices that are connected to that 1-wire port (basical...

What are you trying to achieve? Is there any way you can do it through a software device?

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I'm not sure why I never extended this to include hardware devices. I suppose I just never had the need :)

It's been a while, but I'll look at it... Meanwhile, I'd be happy to share the source with you. It's done in VC6...



Peter