rbonari
Resolved by thetechguru!
I was wondering if one could use ARC to control the Homeseer Automation Software. Thanks to PTP and the Techguru I have been able to use HTTPGet successfully to control a foscam camera on my network.
I was thinking it might be possible to control the automation sotware as it is also connected to my network at a different IP Address of course.
The Homeseer Software can be controlled using ASP (which I am not familiar with) and also you can control it or have custom web pages that control certain events and devices. The particular web page (mypage.htm) needs to be in homeseer html directory.
The following is some code that controls devices and events from the web page:
<form method="POST"> <p><input type="submit" value="table lamp on" name="run_event"></p> </form>
<form method="POST"> <p> <input type="hidden" name="control_device" value="den table lamp=dim=50%"> <input type="submit" value="Lamp 50%" name="control_device"> </p> </form>
I was wondering if one could use HTTPGet statements or one of the HTTP Server Controls to control the Homeseer Software? It must be noted that I have no idea what I am doing with HTML or ASP stuff and things. All of your help would be much appreciated on this. Seems it could be done but you couldn't prove it by me. Thanks in advance for all the help ! Rick B.
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As Dave suggested, you might want to look at Openhab. Also, if you don't have the controllers yet, I would look ay Insteon or Zwave instead of X10. Much more reliable. The reason I am not still using Homeseer is because X10 was so unreliable it drove my wife crazy, and Zwave was new and very expensive, so I couldn't afford to upgrade. I wound up trading all my X10 stuff to jstarnes for robot parts after it was sitting in a box for a couple of years.
The other issue, which I guess you are seeing too is that once Homeseet became a real business, their prices skyrocketed. I paid around $60 for 1.x. The upgrade price for 2.x was nearly twice that, and they are charging it again to go from 2 to 3, not counting the pro versions.
One of their developers lives near me, and I visited his house once. He must be paid very well because it was easily a million dollar home. (although I don't know what his wife does, she may make the real money).
Alan
Alan
Alan,
Thanks much for your help on this matter....Rick Bonari
+1 for openHAB. It's the cat's meow for opensource extensible home automation. The approach of having an open source bus with modularized plugins and a killer contributing community seems to have prove successful as it continues to grow. Basically anything is possible if you are determined to look into it, and this is coming from a non-programmer. Plus you are not bound to running onn windows, so linux, arm is fair game for hardware platform. MQTT is implemented well and of course http as well through the bindings. Oh, and it's free.
I am ready to start looking into robotics as it has been a dream of mine since a kid in the 80's with an omnibot, but I don't want to mess with ROS for months or weeks before getting something fun going, even though I want to get there eventually. I just ordered an ez robot dev kit and naturally my first thought is how can I tie this into all of the commnicating devices already tied together with openHAB. All of my security, lighting, HVAC home theater, etc is there to mesh with so I figure iI'll have some ideas before long.
I am not familiar with the ez robot sdk other available software/api etc, but I am excited to see what possibilities there could be and am glad there is an "easy" on ramp into robotics to prevent getting deterred early on.
Let me know if you guys have any good HA integration tips to share with openHAB already.
Hey @ubergeek & @thetechguru
I have been using a combination of open source programs to make an Jarvis (Ironman) / Sarah (Eureka) like AI that revolves around the ARC application.
I have connected ARC to an MQTT broker that I have installed.
You might like to read about it here in another forum thread I started so that I didn't hijack your conversation. Linking it all together