RE: [misterhouse-users] MrHouse Modes - What are they?

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> Sounds like a good idea to me, being that I wouldn't have a clue how to
> accomplish this myself.
> Is there a way I can start to implement this myself? How do I connect a
> voice command to a button press?

We have lots of options here.   I was thinking one of the more general and
flexable options would be to define new Generic_Items for modes we might
want to toggle, like this:

 $vacation_mode = new Generic_Item;

Then we could update pages like the ia5 modes page with something like this:

   <a href='/SET;referer?$vacation_mode=toggle'>
   <img src=/bin/get_state_image.pl?$vacation_mode alt='Vacation Mode'
border=0></a></td>

Where we create a new get_state_image.pl script to return an image based on
an object name and it's current state.

I just created this mh/web/bin/get_state_image.pl script:

----
my ($object) = @ARGV;

my $state = eval "state $object";
print "get_state.pl error: $@" if $@;
print "returning status of $object: $state\n";

$object = substr $object, 1;    # Drop leading $
my $image_file = "$config_parms{html_dir}/graphics/${object}_$state.gif";
$image_file = "$config_parms{html_dir}/graphics/button.jpg" unless -e
$image_file;

my $image_data = file_read $image_file;
return &mime_header($image_file, 1, length $image_data) . $image_data;
---

Seems to be working ok!   I think now all we need is a set of buttons to
match the various states in the ia5 modes menu.  Ron, you in a button making
mood?  If not, I can cook something up, although my buttons never look as
nice.


> Is it possible to display the state of an input on these screens. At
> this stage I'm only using 1 wire interfaces, no X10.

Try this url:

 http://localhost:8080/bin/list?iButton

from the ia5 MrHouse 'Browse Items' button.

Bruce