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Googling a bit I have found the answer to MessageSend, being http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/MessageSend
which is described pretty good. I guess I can count on using that.

This brings me to another layer of this integration... device, category, templates, a bit confusing.
So a z-wave lamp controller for example would need to be known to the dce for that to be able
to control it, meaning it would need to be inserted into the database. Is this a complex
entity building for the z-wave lamp controller or does it conclude with some general record
describing the device?

Hey Thom,

Thanks for the quick reply once more.
I am not looking to invent the wheel or spend too much time on a "driver"
interface, like I said before, the only development I'm looking at would
be the web interface for myself.

So options 1 and 2 involve either writing my own dce router client pretty much
which is too time consuming and do not serve my goal.

I'm hoping that MessageSend is a binary/shell script tool which provides me
easy interfacing with the DCE router?

Regards,

Alright, that's a good doc, thanks.

I don't have a problem installing all of these components,
I'm just trying to figure out how it all fits together.

To get more practical on this - once all of these components are installed,
telling the DCE system (let's just call it that instead of z-wave driver) to
turn on/off some z-wave lamp device is involved in doing what? sending
a command to the listening port of the DCERouter? inserting a mysql record?

Regards,

How does the current Z-Wave driver work?
In simple terms it is passed commands to put "jobs" in queue and then there's
another component to poll for these jobs and execute them.

Assuming that is correct, what is used to send the Z-Wave driver the commands?
what kind of interface is it? (is it like heyu? a binary which you call with some arguments)
I'm guessing those "queued jobs" are simply entries in a mysql database table
which the poller side checks and execute.



Regards,

Hey,

I have had exchanged some ideas with Hari on #linuxmce about the Z-Wave driver
though that was long ago and I am returning to this project now, where it is much
more imminent.

I am planing on having a linux box running the z-wave driver to control house accessories
but I won't be putting linuxmce on it as it is supposed to be a dedicated z-wave box.
I'm planing to write a web interface to provide complete management for it.

This isn't going to be a commercial product, it's a personal project and I'm only interested
in the z-wave functionality for my smart home so I am not going to dive into developing my
own z-wave driver by reading the current's driver source code or docs, the only development
which I'll be pursuing is the web development for the GUI (something nice, ajax and stuff :-) ).

I'd like to get a better understanding at where does this stand on having the z-wave driver
running on an environment outside of LinuxMCE.


Thanks.

Hey,

In Israel the voltage is 220v, 50hz and our electrical outlets are like:
http://www.israel-travel-tips.com/upload/11-03-2008_electricity.JPG

would these ZWave products fit us? (would we just need the plug convertor due to size/shape or
are we talking here about electricity transformers?)


Thanks.