HouseBot

Has anyone else looked at iRule http://www.iruleathome.com for integration with HouseBot for remote control using iOS and Android devices? It is not free but really looks nice. It can communicate using TCP/IP so was wondering if it could interface with HB using the TCP Client that Osler wrote viewtopic.php?f=1&t=856591 or by some other means.

I haven't looked at that app, but I do have some advice if you want to use myRemote (https://sites.google.com/site/myremoteandroid/) for android.

In theory....
Anything that talks TCPIP can control HB using my webserver I abandoned back in the spring.

I haven't looked at iRule, but if it can send an http request, you can control devices in HB. I was looking at OpenRemote a while back, and I know it can send http commands easily. Buried in the posts somewhere is how to set a HB property value using my webserver and a url. It's something like http://myHBserver:5025/&setPV={Device{( ... ht",PV="On")}}. I don't remember the exact JSON stucture. The {} part. It should be buried in the posts somewhere.

But it would be very simplistic without making it more complex. (huh? Really?) By that I mean, if you want to increase volume, there is no way to send a +1 increment to HB. The way to do it with an html remote would be to write a small script, to get the property value (getPV), add +1 to it, and send it back with setPV.

Doing an simple html remote wouldn't be hard or even a page to click and set lights, etc. I should do some examples.

Tim