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traviskleckner
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Posted: August 07 2008 at 12:28 \| IP Logged

Hello,

I've downloaded the app to send data to PH via windows messaging. Has anyone written an app that gets data back from PH? I'd like to be able to poll for the status of variables and light levels.

I'm certain it's doable, and in fact I would imagine that given the time I could figure it out as well. But, knowing this forum someone's already done it and is happy to share.

For what it's worth I'm using VB.Net 2008.

Anyone?

Thanks in advance.

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rboyleiii
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Posted: August 07 2008 at 20:12 \| IP Logged

I have a sample that gets the returned data back from PH.
It is in VB6 though, as I have switched to the socket server for external communication.

HTH

2008-08-07_201129_PH_WM_VB6_Sample.zip

traviskleckner
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Posted: August 12 2008 at 16:39 \| IP Logged

Thanks.

I was going to ask you if you had the socket code, but a little research turns up many examples.

For those of you who have done sockets with VB, take note that .net makes it MUCH easier. I've got my sample app communicating with PH quite happily now.

Edited by traviskleckner - August 12 2008 at 16:59

TonyNo
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Posted: August 12 2008 at 19:48 \| IP Logged

Do share!

traviskleckner
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Posted: August 13 2008 at 08:45 \| IP Logged

Here you have it. Source is all in VB.Net 2008. Right now it's nothing more than a form that allows you to enter a PH Function and it gives you the return value.

http://www.tekconsultingllc.com/PHSocket.zip

As you may have gathered from my other posts, I recently purchased a Squeezebox Duet. You can write applications to run on the controller...so I decided that I needed an Insteon scene controller application. The problem is that the controller has no ability to send sockets, only to read/write to text files...so I'm creating an app to monitor the text file dir and send the commands to PH. Seems like an overly convoluted solution, so we'll see. Mostly it's a fun little play project while the weather is crazy hot.

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Posted: August 13 2008 at 13:45 \| IP Logged

Thanks!

I believe Dave already created a plug-in to monitor a file as you describe.

traviskleckner
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Posted: August 13 2008 at 15:28 \| IP Logged

Maybe this is a total noob question, but any idea where I might find that? I considered (and am still considering) a plug-in as well.

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Posted: August 13 2008 at 16:50 \| IP Logged

Took some digging to find...

dhoward wrote:

Alrighty, I went ahead and created a generic PowerHome plugin for file monitoring. You can download it here: http://www.power-home.com/download/phfilemonitor.zip.

This plugin will create no load on PowerHome and will fire a generic plugin trigger when any monitored file is changed (based upon file date/time stamp). You can pre-specify the files to monitor or add/change them at runtime.

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Posted: August 14 2008 at 16:59 \| IP Logged

I use Dave's file monitor plug in all over the place.

It works great and is easy to configure.

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Posted: May 01 2009 at 10:09 \| IP Logged

traviskleckner wrote:

Thanks for sharing your code. That should get me going. I did find a bug in it though. Your SendToPH function has your user and password hard coded instead of using the user and password that gets passed to it.

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traviskleckner
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Posted: May 01 2009 at 10:41 \| IP Logged

True enough. I added some of the settings info before I
posted it. I actually fixed that bug when I did my
normal password changes (you know, and the application
didn't work any more!)

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Posted: January 20 2010 at 18:29 \| IP Logged

dhoward wrote:

(Quick Note for Vista Users)

To install the PowerHome File Monitor plugin you will have to run regsvr32.exe to manually register the ActiveX control.

If you receive an error code 0x80004005 you need to disable User Account Control (UAC).

Example Error Text:

The module "c:\Program Files (x86)\powerhome\plugins\ph_filemon.ocx" was loaded but the call to DllRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80004005

Disable UAC Control Tutorial

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