HouseBot

Has anyone looked at Openremote http://www.openremote.org for integration with Housebot? I want to attempt this but wonder if Telnet or HTTP is the best/easiest way. Thoughts?

Could be interesting... But as with all things like this/generic, it's easy to get it to talk to HB with a specific protocol such direct tcpip, telnet or http, but the challenge come when you need to make it HB specific.

How is openremote going to understand what devices and tasks you have setup in HB? And what the valid options are? You probably could specify in open remote your device names that you want to control in HB, and then parse that out when it gets sent to HB. Same thing for values... Since openremote doesn't know natively the valid values, you would have to tell openremote what they are.

The remote designer in HB is decent for what it needs to do and has the fortune of being "HB aware". When I finally get my webremote out the door, it'll be useful on tablets. And phase 2 (due in 2014) will be to have a native iOS and android app which doesn't need a theme designed.

All that being said, teltnet would work with th external control device in ascii mode. Or http would work with the external control device in "cgi" mode with a webserver or use the webremote webserver plugin for getting values. (setting values should be out before the end of the month). The webserver plugin uses http get or post, + JSON, which I suspect is supported by openremote.

Tim