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Users / Anyone with problems connecting Windows XP Orbiter to 0810?
« on: August 16, 2010, 08:24:09 pm »
Has anyone had problems getting a Windows XP orbiter connecting to an 0810 core? I checked the orbiter is defined correctly in the device tree, I filled in the device number and the ip address of the core (on the external lan) but it just shows the logger trying to connect as in this image: http://picasaweb.google.com/blaine.price/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCNuA2-_T3Kf53QE#5506074289130575394

Has anyone seen this before?

cheers,
Blaine

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Users / Z-Wave vs X10?
« on: August 16, 2010, 01:37:28 pm »
OK, I've spent a week getting my head around as much of LMCE as I can, I've set up a couple of MDs (using lightweight orbiter UI, but I've ordered a graphics card that will hopefully let me use UI2), got a USB remote working and media playing in different rooms. I'm now ready to dip my toe in the Home Automation water. I've read the wiki and the forum entries and browsed a couple of UK home automation etailers (http://www.letsautomate.com and http://www.uk-automation.co.uk) and still can't figure out which way to go. Here is what I do know:

X10 devices are cheaper, but for security sensors you need wireless as well as mains electrical. This means you need a standard CM10/11 serial interface for the computer to control the X10 stuff plus something to grab the wireless signals and translate them to the electrical wires to get to the computer like TM571. The combined CM15 device does both but seems to not be stable according to what I have read on the forums.  It also looks like X10 is harder to setup and signals can be lost when sending across mains electrical. Is X10 that hard to setup?

Z-Wave devices seem to be more expensive but easier to setup, but I can't figure out what the minimal starting point is. The UK home automation sites suggest that just having a PC serial to Z-wave interface like ZWave ZCU201 (like this http://www.letsautomate.com/12434.cfm?) will also need a Z-wave remote control (like thishttp://www.letsautomate.com/11109.cfm?) in order to setup all the devices like a motion or door sensor.  But reading the wiki it sounds like I can get by with just a Z-Wave USB stick like this http://www.letsautomate.com/12799.cfm? to setup all the z-wave devices and have the LMCE PC control them, is that right?

If someone can enlighten me I'll gladly try it out then write a wiki entry on easy entry to LMCE home automation.

cheers,
Blaine

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Users / Re: [SOLVED] Can't play music
« on: August 14, 2010, 01:27:24 am »
This worked for me, downgrading fixed the problem now all music works.

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Users / Clues on Interfacing simple detection of closed contact?
« on: August 13, 2010, 04:35:22 pm »
I can't seem to find a plug and play alarm panel for LMCE so I was going to try to get LMCE to detect a closed contact (maybe using a relay) and use that as an event to signal an alarm condition or movement in a room using a traditional PIR or open door contact. Can anyone give me some clues as to where I might get appropriate hardward and where I can find a template to play with so LMCE will recognize the event?

thanks,
Blaine

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Users / Re: WinCE 5" as orbiter?
« on: August 13, 2010, 01:49:08 pm »
I just realized that I had an old O2 XDA lying in a drawer running Windows Mobile 5. My core is 0810 so the orbiter download links don't work and only after much searching have did I find a link to someone hosting a download for Windows orbiter as well as a Windows CE orbiter here:
 http://langstonball.com/linuxmce 

(since the 0810 lmce doesn't have working download links, could someone edit the wiki to point to some official links to the Windows MSI and Windows CE CAB files please?  I also found this one which seems to be just the Windows version: http://www.kbs.org.nz/downloads.html).

Having installed the Orbiter_CeNet4_XScale.CAB from langstonball.com on my XDA running Windows Mobile 5, when I run the Pluto Orbiter I can see a screen showing a log window of the XDA trying to conenct to the router and I can see an empty slot for device ID and IP address, but nothing else happens and after a short time the XDA says it is out of storage memory (there's loads of space on the internal memory and the 2GB card I installed it on).

Am I using the wrong installer or is there something more to getting an orbiter working on a WinCE device?  I have an old tablet PC that I could re-purpose if this was more likely to yield a result, but not sure which OS to put on it, Windows XP Tablet edition or some version of Windows CE?

Any suggestions?

Blaine

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Users / Re: Disked Media Director really not possible?
« on: August 13, 2010, 12:28:31 pm »
UPDATE: yes, but not trusting my eyes I re-ran it and then I tried some of the laptops and then I realized that I needed to be REALLY PATIENT  when you see DisklessSetup.sh to let it build the MD the first time the laptop booted, now the laptops seem to work as MDs (but on AV setup I needed to set the UI to lightweight).

Encouraged, I decided that there must be something on the Media-Center PC that was preventing the boot from LAN even though it was first priority and I disabled every other device. Lo and behold, eeep inside a sub-menu in a part of the BIOS I'd never seen on any other machine there was a setting to enable ROM for LAN boot.

CONCLUSION:  all devices now seem to happily boot as diskless MDs so only mildly curious about disked MD booting, as it looks like boot time wouldn't be a huge difference between disked or diskless.

Thanks for the suggestion,
signed,
A Happy LMCEer

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Users / Re: Can't play music
« on: August 13, 2010, 12:13:30 pm »
I have the same issue with the 2 Aug snapshot: clicking on any artist name resets but if I just click on Play All it starts playing the first track, so I'm guessing it is some kind of database issue. Hope that helps, I'll watch this thread to see if anyone has a fix....

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Users / Disked Media Director really not possible?
« on: August 12, 2010, 11:41:42 am »
Greetings all. I've been playing with 0810 for a few days now and am very impressed, but I can't seem to get a MD working other than the hybrid. I tried an old tablet Windows machine with 500MB RAM and got as far as AV setup but then it failed to get much further. I tried a Toshiba Portege (about 12-18 month vintage) and it wouldn't even get that far, it got it's IP address and said it was running DisklessSetup.sh but then hung.  I have a Media Center type PC with a fujitsu bios but even though I set it to boot from LAN it seems to ignore it (if I disable everything but the LAN it refuses to try to boot anything).  So if it is possible to get an image that will boot from USB or something else I'd like to try, can someone point me at some instructions?

I have read lots of posts about why pxe booting is so much more desireable but the hardware I have to hand seems to disagree!

Thanks all,
Blaine

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Karel, I'm trying to set up some Edimax IP cameras (IC-1520) which are very similar to yours. I looked at the wiki item on IP cameras but "Generic Analog Camera" doesn't appear in my device template list (I'm running LMCE 0810 from the latest snapshot).  can you tell me how you set yours up? Did you ignore it when it was auto detected? Mine was auto detected as a D-Link DSC camera but even editing the settings to the paths I know and using the default username password (admin:1234) I still can't get anything to appear, even though I can see it by going directly to the internal address of the camera as http://192.168.80.139/snapshot.jpg

thanks,
Blaine

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Users / WinCE 5" as orbiter?
« on: August 11, 2010, 04:21:57 pm »
Does anyone know if something like this WinCE 5" touchscreen:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=286831&source=1

is likely to work well as an orbiter using the lmce WinCE installer?

thanks,
Blaine

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I installed the latest 0810 snapshot and setup OK, but from when I access the core via the web admin and click on any of the  "Download Windows Software for Orbiters" links they all download a zero byte file. I also tried to netboot a PC from the dcerouter network but it looks like the files weren't found. I did run the /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh
 manually and it seemed to run without problems. Did I miss a step somewhere?

thanks!
Blaine

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Has anyone tried connecting an X10 alarm panel to LinuxMCE via X10?

I'm looking at this panel:
BMB SC28X Home automation/security system http://www.letsautomate.com/12469.cfm?CFID=2206304&CFTOKEN=9d6833-a3b705a5-22fa-4de5-906b-53335be074da
(which duplicates a number of functions of LinuxMCE, I know)

and connecting it to my LinuxMCE 0810 core either with a CM11/12 or 15. But I think you can only have one X10 "controller" and therefore both the CM11/12/15 and this panel would not both be able to control/sense things, is that right?

Blaine

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Users / Re: LinuxMCE Alarm Panels available in the UK?
« on: August 08, 2010, 03:45:00 am »
I was planning to avoid X10 because of worries of line noise, but I just spotted this panel:
X10 SC28X Wireless Voice Dialler Security & Advanced Home Automation Controller http://www.letsautomate.com/12469.cfm?CFID=2206304&CFTOKEN=9d6833-a3b705a5-22fa-4de5-906b-53335be074da


which claims to also support 2 standard wired sensors. At GBP 70, this seems to be the cheapest way into using LinuxMCE for a home alarm system. Any comments as to whether this panel is likely to be recognized?

Thanks in anticipation...

Blaine

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Users / LinuxMCE Alarm Panels available in the UK?
« on: August 08, 2010, 03:24:22 am »
Does anyone know of an inexpensive way to connect any standard security alarms to LinuxMCE?

From what I have been able to decypher, is *appears* that LinuxMCE will recognise a
DSC PowerSeries 8-32 Zone Control Panel PC1832 (costs approx GBP 75) plus a
DSC PowerSeries Integration Module IT-100 (cost approx GBP 70)
to get RS232 connection to LinuxMCE Core. So for GBP 140 I can connect my old wired alarm sensors to a panel which Linux MCE will recognize. Is this correct?

Or I could throw away all the wired sensors and go Z-Wave, so I'll need a Z-Wave controller to plug into the LinuxMCE core, such as:
ACT HomePro ZCS201 RF Computer Interface SERIAL (RS232) (cost approx GBP 40)
and then add one PIR, such as ACT HomePro ZIR010 Z-Wave PIR Sensor (cost approx GBP 65), which gives a total cost of about GBP 105 for an alarm system with one sensor.

Can anyone confirm that either equipment scenario is likely to work with LinuxMCE? If not, can you suggest another?

thanks,
Blaine

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