HouseBot

Hi, I am planning to have a dedicated Home automation pc and would like to connect this to a touchscreen monitor that i could run as a SW remote

Could someone please explain how i would run SW remote on the same pc that the server software is on ?

Im after some tips on the best way of getting housebot to control Microsoft Media centre 2005 which is installed on the same pc ?

Hi and Sorry to jump on your thread, I have housebot running on my MCE bassed HTPC and am trying to work out the best way for a housebot remote (in this case a windows CE based webpad) to control the MCE functions (such as stop, forward, rewind etc etc). Do you by any chance use housbot to control M...

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I am trying to incorporate MCE 2005 into my housebot remote design and need a way of making the software remote buttons launch the MCE commands. I can make housebot launch MCE (On the same pc) by directing a button to launch the MCE start button shortcut on my desktop. What I now need to do is contr...

I am new to this so please excuse me, I have doloaded a load of bitmaps which I want to use for transport buttons on my software remote (play,stop,forward,back etc etc) but am unsure what to do, I hoped it would be a case of just pasting them into the "Housebot Violet Themse folder on my C driv...

Hi Timoh & thank you for your reply, could I just ask (and please excuse my ignorence here as I am new to graphics software). To clarify, 1) I create the button, using freebuttons.org and save it as a ".BMP" file 2) You say I then "save (export) them as bmp files, then open them i...

I may be making a mistake here but can not find anything allready designed for this (although I am a newbie to housebot). I have a pc running MCE 2005 and would love to control it via serial (RS232), wi-fi or TCP/IP with my housebot software. Ideally allowing for 2 way feedback so the software remot...

I would like to import or design some different designed buttons, possibly Logos & Skins for my soft remote but do not really know where to start. I have seen various buttons & logos I like the look at for Pronto remotes over on remotecentral.com but have no idea how/if I can use these in ho...

Hi, Sorry to revive an old post but I am new to housebot and toying with keeping my MCE 2005 Install and using Housebot for control of this and X10 lights etc or switching to Meedio instead I am really looking at how to control MCE 2005 from Hosebot at the moment (ideally with them both installed on...

thankyou for your response, I agree that it may be a little ambitious at present and will do as you say and get them both running as intended first then intergrate the two after

Hi Richard, I have dowloaded Medio essentials and am setting it up to compare to MCE 2005, One question I have is when you say you have housebot fully configured for medio essentials what do you mean ? My aim would be to have medio essentials and housebot installed on the same pc and to be able to c...

I have MCE2005 on my HTPC which I have also installed Housebot on - I would like to control MCE2005 with housebot - has anyone done this and if so can they possibly gove me any tips ?

Please ignore the above - cracked it now

Following on from this, I have again worked my way through installing each version, same as before except when I tried to run the PPC "ARM" version, when I did this I got a client configuration screen asking for software remote name and server address, i completed these and closed the box ...