MCE Add-in

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MCE Add-in

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Does anyone know the GUID number for HBControlMod.dll. Can't seem to find it anywhere.

It's for a media center add-in i'm creating to allow you to control HouseBot from MCE. It's almost done, just need to disable the ActiveX prompts that are displayed which is the reason I need the GUID number. (I hope :? )

Would an MCE add-in be of use to anyone else? Deciding whether I should spend some extra time to create an install package for it and upload to the forum?

Best Regards,
Allan :D
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If it won't accept the name HBControlMod.HBControl, the GUID is 0A59C808-2BAD-4A5E-81A7-D6169073A89B
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Post by allanstevens »

Wow that was quick. Thanks Scott. Works a charm. Can now control my lights, etc via windows media center. Just need a bit more tinkering and i'll be there.

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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 MCE and if so would you mind sharing how you managed it ?
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Post by allanstevens »

Hi Newstuart,

Sorry but nope, I have not yet found a way of control MCE from housebot. Planning to look into this after i finished my add-in.

If you find out would love to know. Would be great be able to pause music playing in MCE when the phone rings. When I had HouseBot setup with Meedio it worked great.
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Hello, I use Girder from Promixis " http://www.promixis.com " for the control of the MCE 2005.
I have to configure hot key of the MCE 2005, and I call the commands(via the plugin girder of the housebot. I did not find command WM for MCE 2005.
Here is the link of the MCE hot key.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/product ... Product=42

Best regards.

Ethan.
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MCE add-in

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Allan,
It would be great if you could upload an MCE add-in

Thanks
Erez
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Post by allanstevens »

Finally got round to finishing the mce plugin. The plugin uses the HBControlMod.dll so you will need to register it on the Media Center PC.

After installation run the Configure program to set the housebot ip, port and password.

Any probs let me know, any feedback is welcome. Thanks.
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Works great :!: Thanks Alan.
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take a look at this link for possible control of mce
http://www.kindel.com/Default.aspx?tabid=25
Regards

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Post by allanstevens »

Hi PT

Wrote a script a few weeks back to control MCE within housebot using the same program (MCE Controller) - Just never got round to sharing it on the forum.

Have now :D thanks

http://www.cebotics.com/phpbb2/viewtopi ... 131#445131
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Post by tvdbon »

Hi There,

I'm a new member to this forums and a newbie to housebot. Just wanted to find out if this addin still works with housebot 3.0 ? I tried it out last night and I can see that it connects to the housebot application, but it doesn't show any of the devices or any other info The housebot application also shows an "unknown ipc command error". Any suggestions ?

Regards,
Tom
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HBMCE

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Allan, thanks

I tried to install.
I get the following error (within MCE) - Automation server can't creat object.
Any idea?
Housebot is installed on my MCE PC.
Configured: ip- 127.0.0.1 and port- 5009.

Thanks
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Post by allanstevens »

Have you registered the HBControlMod.dll on the media center pc? If not I think this may be the problem.

Copy the c:\program files\housebot\plugins\devices\externalcomcontrol\HBControlMod.dll file to the media center pc.

Then run regsvr32 HBControlMod.dll

Fingers crossed.

tvdbon - I have not tried it with Housebot 3, (don't use the plugin now as I prefer to use software remotes) I wonder if the GUID has changed i'll give it a test and report back.
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Thanks

Followed your instruction, and it works great.
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