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Users / Re: Lighting

« on: October 04, 2007, 12:03:14 pm »

Yeah it is more for the professional lighting scene but its a solid fast protocol that is very reiliable. The main drawback is that it requires wiring to be installed and there are not 'lamp modules' etc like there are for X10 and zwave. I think for a new build then its a viable contender as it would be much cheaper than a closed protocol system.

Ive tried X10 but havent had much success. It seems to work well in one room but doesnt get very far. Also I find it quite slow. I know DMX quite well from my college days so maybe I will knock up an interface for my dimmers sometime..

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Users / Re: Lighting

« on: October 04, 2007, 10:31:18 am »

Does anyone know if LMCE works with DMX512 as this is the defacto standard when it comes to lighting?

I have a couple of dimmers and fixtures knocking around that I might look at getting working but would like to have LMCE control them.

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Help Wanted / Re: $50 bucks for Flickr Slideshow to point to my pics

« on: October 04, 2007, 10:23:54 am »

Darren,

So the flickr script looks as tho it wouldnt be too hard to modify to add some more options to use a users flikr photos and/or photoset. It seems another option would be to specify a search string and flikr would return all the photos with those tags. - From what i can tell this was its original intention but LMCE uses it to get the 'most interesting' photos.

I have started to try to document it a little to help in modifying it. its at http://www.reesmarine.com/personal/flickrpl.doc
Feel free to make any ammendments or add to it as I havent worked it all out yet (perl isnt my strongest language).

The other side to this mod/hack is writing a script to use the users local photos as screensaver content. I guess this would just mean using a similar method to the flickr script but without the downloading section. One thing to note is that after the download the flickr script resizes the files to suit so it would be better to copy the files from the users local directory or network then resize them to leave the original the same.

Have you any idea what calls the flickr script and what argument it passes?
Also we need someway to modify the admin pages so that a user can make the choice of where the screensaver art comes from.

So I guess to move forward we need to:
1, Mod existing flickr.pl script to give more options.
2, Create a script to use the users photos (lightly based on the flikr script).
3, Modify the admin pages to allow user to select choices.

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Help Wanted / Re: $50 bucks for Flickr Slideshow to point to my pics

« on: October 03, 2007, 11:06:20 am »

Darren,

Can you PM me a copy of the flicker.pl script as it would be good to have a good look at it and I cant get access to mine until mon. I have no idea how the changes to the admin gui would be made and how this would affect other stuff either. I am pretty new to LMCE but I am looking at getting a little more involved in things like this.

Cheers, Marv

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Help Wanted / Re: $50 bucks for Flickr Slideshow to point to my pics

« on: October 03, 2007, 10:37:51 am »

Darren,

Good work! would another option be to create a perl script called flicker.custom.pl (based on the original) and then just modify the parameters passed to flicker so that the users own flickr photos are used. This would save changing the database and all the internals would run as normal. However it would still mean that the photos would come from flickr and not local media.

Also which ever method is chosen it needs to be integrated into the admin so that this can be chosen as an option.. I am working away at the moment but will have a look at this when Im back home...

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Developers / Re: Some EIB things

« on: October 02, 2007, 10:10:38 pm »

EIB (and some other control protocols) is now merged into something called KNX see http://www.knx.org

It is designed to allow communication over, Twisted Pair, Poweline, RF and Ethernet. It claims its a royalty free protocol but there are hefty fees to become a member or to get a copy of the specification.

Support form LMCE would have to be done through 3rd party converters in a similar way to X-10 or Zwave is done now. Shame it isnt an open protocol and LMCE and other projects could support it fully naitevly.

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Users / Re: What is better Live DVD or the 2 CD's?

« on: October 02, 2007, 04:58:37 pm »

I tried a few times with the DVD but could not get it to work. It installed kububtu, then wouldnt reboot properly. It seems its a known issue with certain hardware.

I then opted for the using a kubuntu disk and then the 2 LMCE CDs which worked perfectly.

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Help Wanted / Re: $50 bucks for Flickr Slideshow to point to my pics

« on: October 01, 2007, 10:46:33 pm »

What would be good is if you could still use flickr but choose a user, photostream, collection etc. Or even more than one that cycled through. This way you could use ur own flickr account to show your own or a groups photos.