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Developers / LMCE core as an AP
« on: March 27, 2008, 07:09:02 am »
Hi

Please do not try to stop me or tell me "You're on your own" ;-)

The community here is great and an AP running on a headless core would be good, I am not going to use an external AP :-)

I have a Commell LS-570 "swiss-army-knife" firewall and I have just put LMCE beta3 on there.

Some details of the box here: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=612056

It has an atheros ABGN mini-pci wifi card installed and I am going to use this with LMCE and a Cisco 7921G (using 11a).

So I was thinking of dropping to a shell on the core downloading/compiling and installing madwifi then configuring it to act as an AP, any pointers on what else I need to do, ideally I would like the 7291G to be detected on the atheros interface and for that to work using chan-sccp-b?

Please help.

Thanks for all your help now and in the past.

Kind Regards
Richard

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Users / Nokia n800 orbiter bluetooth
« on: March 24, 2008, 01:59:24 am »
Hi All

Can I use my n800 as an orbiter only using bluetooth, my core has no space for a 802.11g card but it does have USB bluetooth?

I need to build up the core before trying this out.

Thanks for your time.

Richard

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Developers / Updated: Porting phidgets to become a DCE device?
« on: February 25, 2008, 11:30:32 am »
Hi,

I have the PhidgetWebservice21 from phidgets.com running and I have connected to it using telnet on port 5001 but I can't figure out the commands to control the socket.

Can somebody have a look at the source and help figure out how to control the socket?

http://www.phidgets.com/downloads.php?os_id=3&fw_id=3&fw_file_id=3

As a start I just want to read the value from a temperature sensor connected to the PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8.

Thanks for taking the time.

Cheers
Rich

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Developers / OK lets make a list of Australian PLCBUS stuff we want?
« on: February 17, 2008, 11:22:07 am »
Hi,

Below is a thread I started in Users, basically, I would like to know is it possible to poll a device (phidget) using http, parse the results and feed this in to LMCE?

For instance i have three sensors (temp, light, motion) linked to a small wireless computer, I use http and can retrieve the data from the sensors, can I then get this to be useful to LMCE, so for instance I can use the temperature reading to switch on a fan using PLCBUS?

Also does anyone know where we can get Aussie PLCBUS?

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards
Richard


Phidgets.com compatibility
« on: February 03, 2008, 10:12:16 pm »
   
Hi,

I like the idea of the PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 for use in home automation, if I buy the following:

PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8
Light Sensor
Motion Sensor
Temperature Sensor

Is there a way I can have Linux Media Centre Edition, read the values for light, motion and temperature?

Linux MCE supports a "Generic Serial Device" and states "For most external devices that are controlled by RS232, USB or Ethernet, you can use GSD (Generic Serial Device)"

And DCE looks like a way to get at data also.

Is it possible to use PhidgetWebService to expose the light, motion and temperature values to telnet for instance?

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards
Richard

caederus Newbie   
Re: Phidgets.com compatibility
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 05:51:31 am »

I have been using phidgets successfully for many things and I'd love to see them supported by linuxmce.  The most useful and easily adopted in by linuxmce would seem to be the mains relay outputs for lights and the analogue inputs for reading temperature or motion sense, but there are many other possibilities---I've used the RFID tag reader and a relay to unlock my front door and a light sensor and servo motor to control blinds.

I've been making my own control programs with the phidgets.com C library, so if someone could just show me an example of what commands to put in the GSD boxes to read and write values using command-line tools, I'm sure I'd be able to take it from there.  Alternatively, as Richard says, the phidgets.com library also includes a web-based remote API, so if someone could show me an example of how to get GSD to do HTTP GET and POST, I'm sure I'd be able to get that working too.

Thanks,

Robin.


colinjones
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Re: Phidgets.com compatibility
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 12:46:58 pm »
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You can probably get it to work, but will need a driver developed that hooks into the Pluto database and talks to the DCERouter - this is the element that routes all command and event messages around the system. Go to the developers forum and you will see lots of development going on for HA products, they will be very happy to see you if you are prepared to help add another product. You should see lots of code snipets of what they are doing, and the wiki has plenty of info as well.

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Users / Australian PLCBUS, can hari help?
« on: February 11, 2008, 04:35:02 am »
Hi,

I have read with interest the "Home automation in Europe?" thread.

I am in Australia and looking for a powerline solution, hari mentioned PLCBUS, just trying to figure out what is supported in LinuxMCE?

I guess I need to buy the PLCBUS USB Computer Interface [PLCBUS-1141] and at least one australian appliance  plug in module to begin testing, does anyone have any idea where I can get this?

So if manage to get the PLCBUS-1141 and a module, will this work in LMCE without many problems?

Thanks for your time.

Regards
Richard
aussiehomeautomation.blogspot.com

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Users / Phidgets.com compatibility
« on: February 04, 2008, 07:12:16 am »
Hi,

I like the idea of the PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 for use in home automation, if I buy the following:

PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8
Light Sensor
Motion Sensor
Temperature Sensor

Is there a way I can have Linux Media Centre Edition, read the values for light, motion and temperature?

Linux MCE supports a "Generic Serial Device" and states "For most external devices that are controlled by RS232, USB or Ethernet, you can use GSD (Generic Serial Device)"

And DCE looks like a way to get at data also.

Is it possible to use PhidgetWebService to expose the light, motion and temperature values to telnet for instance?

Any thoughts?

Thanks for your time.

Kind Regards
Richard

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Users / headless core, wol storage, n800 orbiter, will it work?
« on: January 20, 2008, 10:39:12 pm »
Hi

I would like to do the following, will this work?

Core: dual core, 2gb ram, 4GB CF boot disk, 160gb media disk, 4 ethernet ports, dvb card, adsl card, wifi card (all linux compatible) can I use this as a music server, tv recorder and firewall as well as the core?

Storage Server, dual core, 2gb ram running solaris 10, store all movies on here and wake-on-lan when movie is required.

Media Director, single core, two sound cards, two spdif connected to receiver, each card used to send a different source to the multiroom audio, headless if possible, network boot preferred, use n800 to select room and music to play there, n800 displays cover art and track listings.

Windows Media Centre PC used for live TV and watching HDDVD disks, partner friendly config :-(

Either the core or media director connected using serial to my Marantz SR5600, to control, all devices will be in the same vicinity, only the core will be always on.

A nokia n800 as orbiter, I would prefer to have this as the only controller for the core and media director, if maintenance is required on the core or media director i can use vlc or connect up a screen, I would prefer to not be running X on the core or media director to save space and resources.

Will all this work, any experiences, caveats?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Cheers
Richard
http://aussiehomeautomation.blogspot.com/

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