By the way,... I can't for the life of me figure out how to adjust the sensitivity (I use a MCV Vera1 running UI2). There's no setting that says "sensitivity," at least not in the Vera's interface,... and nothing like that in the LinuxMCE web admin screens either.

I'm at a loss,... and this is a secondary concern right now. I'm actually more interested in how to turn my Wowwee Rovio into a surveillance camera...

there should be a command that can be issued to the zwave interface which included the nodeid, parameter# and parameter data...

Parameter data is the sensitivity setting 0-255... Not sure what parameter# is correct tho.

The fur doesn't set off the IR motion detector, it's the body underneath that does,... 

Ok, i'm being overly persistent here, but: what about two equal weight animals, one of which presents a much larger surface area in one dimension... like a flounder!

My question is... How big's your pet?

* davegravy removes mind from gutter. 

15-20lbs sounds about right.

Funny how the standard descriptor is weight. What if my animal was light as a feather but had jumbo-afro fur!

Worst case, spend a Sunday afternoon with your cat empirically finding the ideal sensitivity...

...and then report back because I have the same device and question   

Is the hope to have the pi as a media director, or qorbiter-only type setup (so it can be connected to an in-wall touch panel). Or both?

Ok, delete the Developer Goals page then... I only seem to be able to edit or move.

I added a page that's meant for those curious about what's going on in terms of development. I'm hoping here for something that gives an outsider or prospective developer a quick picture of the state of the system.

DISCLAIMER: this is based purely on my lurking in #linuxmce-devel, the forums, and watching the svn timeline. It is likely wrong, incomplete, and I'd suggest it's lacking a bit of detail. Please don't take any offence if your name is not on there, if I missed a major task you are working on, or if I completely misunderstood what it is you are doing.

I'm going to try to keep it up-to-date, but I'd appreciate help from the devs in making sure the page is somewhat accurate.

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Developer_Goals

Cheers

FWIW, I'm interested in this too as I am experiencing something similar, but haven't had a chance to play with it fully.

Keeping in mind HomeOS is only a research project at this point... they have not decided to go forward with productization. I for one, hope they do move forward.

That said, I have heard devs refer to THIS project as a "research platform".  There's a fine line I suppose...

They do of course have a lot of capital, which can be used to give incentive to 3rd party hardware manufacturers to cooperate in the integration process.

Unless super magic dev who knows our architecture and 

...

uses voodoo power to make everything gravy

You can just refer to golgoj4 by his name, you know.

Ok but what is the next step in this dialog? Should the donor list the areas of the project he is interested in contributing to, and then devs with matching interests can respond with proposals for work scope and cost?

How do other open source projects handle these sorts of queries?

There's likely several possible reasons for this. I had the same symptoms you describe and I ended up discovering the culprit to be a bad antenna (internal) on my AEON Z-stick USB dongle.

MDs do turn off their display/receiver after idle time-out, so presumably the idle-detection code is there and can be extended to do what you want.

golgoj4, for us less well informed testers, what (if anything) is required for us to test the latest android qorbiter other than:

* co the latest skins directory
* download and install the latest .apk from your website

Thanks