HouseBot

I think you nailed it when you said that HA can be done so many different ways these days... Take the RaspBerryPi with PiFace or RazBerry for z-wave, or BB Bone with all it's inputs and java script ease of use. There are plenty of economical DIY/tinkerer solutions out there. On the other end, stand ...

For hardware, I was thinking of the Pi, but came to the conclusion it's a wee bit under powered. Instead I'm going with the BeagleBone Black. It run's faster, but more importantly has more IO pins than I know what to do with. For s/w, I won't mention the competition on the HB board, but you can foll...

After 10 years with HB, it's finally time to move on. HB got me into home automation, for without it, I doubt my house would be littered with x10 switches or stick-on IR emitters. I'll remember all the great times writing VB scripts and integrating to a myriad of "unsupported" serial devic...

In theory.... Anything that talks TCPIP can control HB using my webserver I abandoned back in the spring. I haven't looked at iRule, but if it can send an http request, you can control devices in HB. I was looking at OpenRemote a while back, and I know it can send http commands easily. Buried in the...

The HBWebserver is fine for delivering web pages and using JSON to get & set properties. Anything beyond that, such as trying to interpret the theme XML and serve it as the webClient, is not the way to go. More specific questions... are there sufficient hooks in the HB Server executable for the ...

The relationship between the SWRemote and HBserver is very unique. So unique there is next to nothing that would be of any use for designing an iPad app. Likewise for the HBserver itself, there is simply some stuff that it can't do for working with any other client such as an iPad app. This is where...

Technically it's possible, but.... It depends on 1) what you want it to look like and 2)How should it know what to display. If you want a full on theme like in SWRemote, then you will need some form of designer for the iPad remote. So for that solution you now have an iPad app where you ca both desi...

Possibly a case of DLL hell!???! crt=common runtime. It is a shared component in windows platforms, but not as shared as MS would like you to believe. Did you install something else? It may have over written some CRT libraries and Housebot doesn't like the new libraries. I had a similar issue when d...

Hi Steve, I scrapped it about a month ago. :( There's a post in the general forum. I should not have used the the project as learning for JS and a (re)learning for C++. In nutshell, two things happened... 1) Making it cross-browser compatible was turning out to be a huge headache. and 2) I clued in ...

Hi folks, Straight to the point... Bad news first... webRemote development is halted. Done. No more. :( As I started to look at cross-browser compatibility, I decided it would be too much of a headache to maintain. When I dug into it even more, + couple weeks of thinking... I've pretty much done eve...

I saw those on ebay.... But.... I recall reading somewhere to be careful of which version of the board you buy. + I had some concern that image on ebay does not look like the image on the xapmcsWebControl. It made me think it was the wrong board. (Taking a closer look at the image on xapmcsWebContro...

I'm guessing it's more than just writing to the program files/Housebot folder. I had a similar issue with my webRemote plugin writing files to the HB folder, but it did not crash HB. It just would not write the log file. Adding the permissions to the user to write to the HB folder solved the issue. ...

I should clarify "without Admin". With a regular user, I suspect HB will not work as Scott mentioned. In my case, my user ID is a member of the Administrators group. While this gives most of the same privileges as the ID "Administrator", it's not quite the same. This is probably ...

Not much on ebay for CAI boards right now. I'll probably do something with Arduino and xap. I have a couple of spares kicking around. And talking of overlays on TVs, I noticed that there is an Arduino shield (composite/yellow jack only) that can do overlays. I'm still looking for cheap DIY audio zon...

That worked for me too. And I didn't go Doh! All of HB works without Admin, + the plugin I'm writing doesn't need Admin, so it was reasonable for me to expect it would work without Admin. I don't get an UAC prompt, but I suspect the how to disable it is lurking on Google somewhere. Thanks Edward. Ba...