HouseBot

Finally, I am getting around to releasing my plug-in code. A few people have asked about it in the past as an example how to write a plug-in using the serial port. I've really customized the Meedio SDK code but I hope it may still be helpful. As stated clearly in the README.txt, my motivation for re...

finally happened again. I don't think it's a timing issue- took only 40 minutes or so this time. According to House Bot the state was still ''in session".

With a real remote control (or a Pronto), a button sends out the code when the button is pressed, not when released as what happens with a Windows button. When trying to find a spot in a TiVo recording, video tape or DVD, it's much easier to nail the spot if the button acts when pressed rather than ...

That has got to be one of the most confusing dialogs I've ever encountered.

I accidentally deleted the 'Error Log'. How do I re-create it or get it back? It doesn't seem possible to create a user defined log that filters to specific severity levels.

:? Very strange. Does it do this every night? All of those properties are built with the same time/date variables in the plugin, so I'm not sure I understand how this could be. Are you seeing this from the Property History view or from a SWRemote? Seeing this in both the property view and the sw re...

Only between the hours of 2:00am-2:59am this happens. From the "System Time" device, the "TimeAndDate" field always shows the correct time. However, the "Time" and "Time Without Seconds" fields are one hour behind. e.g. right now they show the time as 1:27am w...

Paul, The APIs were constructed over time, so they do lack some consistency. I just want to make sure my plug-ins don't break HouseBot or vice versa. I'm not meaning to publicly critique your code :). I think most (or all) of your "const" changes are valid. I'll make the changes to the st...

While writing my HouseBot plug-ins, I decided to expand the plug-in support classes to be a bit more comprehensive and make writing future plug-ins easier. In doing so, I found a few potential const violations, and I want to be sure I can depend on these particular pointers being returned to HouseBo...

Solved. Turned out to be a USB power issue. Everything works fine and reliably now that I put it on it's own powered hub.

Well, now lrnhelper is failing the same way. I think there's just an intermittence somewhere in the drivers or API. That seems to indicate the HouseBot plug-in isn't causing the problem after all. I'll persue this over at the usb-uirt site. Paul, Apparently the only difference between the way the lr...

Those field contents appear to be fine, except that most of the codes I used HouseBot to learn codes with don't have an Rx= value (the field ends with "Rx="). There's no correlation between working codes and non-working codes that have or don't have Rx= values. The vast majority of the cod...

...I've even compared the pronto data stored in the housebot database. And the codes match or don't match? Sorry! Typed that too quickly. Yes, the codes do indeed match. What I see by directly viewing a copy of the .mdb file in Access matches what I see in HouseBot which matches the working codes i...

The lrnhelper application sends and learns all my problem codes just fine. I've even compared the pronto data stored in the housebot database.

Are you saying you are going to ditch your airpanel in favor of a ViewPanel? What are the reasons for this? I'd rather run the CE version of the remote directly on the panel rather than through rdp. This would be less data to shove through the wireless network (thus faster response) and, most impor...