HouseBot

Hi Scott,
is it possible to have read access to the location setting values from inside of a device dll? I've programmed a device to give me the sun coordinates for controlling my roller blinds.

Thanks peter

From the download area, I can download an older version of Interface SDK than I have. The last comment in my HardwareAPI.h is versioned 3.01. The latest I see on your site is 2.00. Is that a matter of my browser?
peter

Scott,

try to set a numeric property by a task. The task copies a numeric value from any other property (%%_%%).

When you set the original property to any negative value for instance -1 the destination property becomes -4 (always four times of the original one).

This was not in HB3.01.

peter

Of course, I can share my sources with others. If anybody interested in it please email me. The WAGO nodes are not that common I think. Thats why it may be interesting for freaks.
It works using UDP protocol which carries a Modbus-protocol.

peter

Hi, I understand the problem very good. I solved that in a different way. I use the HB with WAGO-nodes (http://www.wago.com). I've created a hardware interface for the nodes. Then I've created a couple of basic devices (lamp,switch,tempsensor, etc. and some variants of them). This stuff is done with...

Hi Scott,

I found that an AND operator has higher priority than OR in task conditions. Is there any possibility to get it working with higher prio for OR?

peter

Hi Scott, Try following: - a task changes a numeric property of any device using a substitution string - change this property now manually to a different value - let the task change the property again to a complete different value (same substitution string) I see now in the property's history the fi...

I've added a screenshot to my post.
Version 0.2 available
- crash when task has an another action than property change

See
http://www.housebot.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=855904

peter

Hi everybody, I've made here a little diagnostics program. It can be used to evaluate the HB's database. It shows you graphically what devices and what tasks you have. And, it shows you what the dependencies between them are. If anybody is interestend in something like that, just have a look at it. ...

I believe I know a little bit more. The suspicious threads are regular tasks. That I found by comparing the stacks with stacks when housebot behaves normally. I understood that tasks are separate threads but originally I thought that are waiting threads, waiting for any event to run. When a tasks be...

Scott,
occasionally my Housebot gets very slow. I posted this problem some months ago in the forum here. The attached picture shows the stack of one of these threads. Maybe you can see what part of the server creates the threads.

Thanks again
peter

Hi Osler,
I'm curious about your program, But simething wrong, I've got this:

bye peter

Scott, my question was not 100% correct. I create a separate thread when the DLL is loaded. This thread waits for an event with no timeout. The event is set when the DeviceRun awakes from WaitForMultipleObjects and a particular property has a change request. In my separate thread I call the ChangeRe...

Scott, a little question: Is it legal to put a new property change request to the queue while a current call of the devices' run-function is not yet finished? (reentrant problems) In my application, the run-function triggers a separate thread with an event and the separate thread calls subsequently ...

Is there any chance to change a time property or a time span property in a short notation on a SW-Remote property edit control?
The format Hours=xx,Minutes=xx ...
is actually to complicated for a user.
I mean something like hh:mm:ss should be possible

Thanks peter