HouseBot

Are the EZIO boards supported in housebot?

Thanks,

Brad.

I have downloaded and tried the housebot software.

It seems like a good piece of work. The only concern I have is the Insteon devices are generic only (being a switch). I want to use a door switch for my pantry light and use a couple of motion detectors to trigger lights around the house.

From what I can tell the only insteon devices supported are the switches. I am not sure if the insteon group will work or not.

Can anyone comment on the use of Insteon and Housebot?

Brad.

You are right, basically the device types available are for switches, including the keypad. In my case I bought one insteon motion sensor to test it and it works using the switch device. You basically set it up the same way as a switch and you use the "power state" property to monitor its state. (on = movement, off = no movement). I imagine it will work the same way with the windows/door contacts.

Saludos,

Victor

So I can assume the same is for the EZIO boards as well. Perhaps ScottBot can chime in here and let me know if he plans on including any more devices, or how I can communicate to these devices?

I wonder if it's possible to use scripts to talk to the Insteon devices? Anyone done anything like this?

Thanks,
Brad.

BwiggleS wrote:So I can assume the same is for the EZIO boards as well. Perhaps ScottBot can chime in here and let me know if he plans on including any more devices, or how I can communicate to these devices?

There are currently no plans to support the EZIO. Sorry.

If you just want simple on/off control, you should be able to use an X10 Device to control it (see the ezio manual for details).

Thanks for the update Scott.

Is there any chance that HouseBot will be capable of using any RS-485 I/O boards in the future?
Examples such as:
http://www.dghcorp.com/digitalio/diomodules.htm
http://www.dghcorp.com/d1000m/
http://www.temcocontrols.com/product.ph ... 28bee031a0

Things like this are likely to be "one-off" devices with user dependent configuration. As such, it is unlikely they will be officially supported by Scott. Check out this post to integrate a USB based I/O device:

http://www.cebotics.com/forums/viewtopi ... 4&t=856438

You can also look at phidgets and write your own vbscript to interact with one of their 8/8/8 boards - www.phidgets.com .

In addition, the sites you linked to have rs-232 capable boards and you can create your own interface using the generic serial device.

Osler