RE: [misterhouse-users] Serial Items vs. X10 Items

[Bill S. <bs...@vi...>]

Hi Mike,

I think I'm following what your trying to do, and I would have suggested you
try the XAJ as the item, but I see you already did.  I'm wondering if a
better idea wouldn't be to add a hidden attribute to the objects, just like
we have an icon attribute.  If the hidden attribute was set, the tk and web
interfaces wouldn't show the objects.

Let's let Bruce see this thread and see what he thinks of the idea (as it
requires changes to mh and http_server.pl to respect the hidden setting)

Cheers,
Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: mis...@li...
[mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Mike
Dodd
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 1:33 PM
To: mis...@li...
Subject: [misterhouse-users] Serial Items vs. X10 Items


Bruce, thanks for the MH updates.  Things are starting to come together
here, but I still have a lot to learn.

Question: I noticed that SERIAL was added to read_table_A.pl (thank you!),
but I'm confused about how it works.  When I change a (working) remote
button from X10I to SERIAL, I get an error message like "unrecognized code
XAJ" (or ??? - sorry, I don't have the log file any more) when I press the
button.

Here's what is in the .mht file:

# This works.
X10I, A1, Mike_Lamp, Mike|Inside_Lights
# This produces error messages.
SERIAL, A1, Mike_Lamp, Mike|Inside_Lights

I even tried changing the A1 to XA1, since the device sending the data is
an X-10 remote.  I also defined a dummy device to trap the XAJ code, but
that didn't work either.

My goal is to get rid of the button objects on the standard Web interface,
so I don't see 16 objects with ON or OFF states based on the last time the
button was pressed.  I was hoping SERIAL would be the ticket (and it does
remove them; I just can't get MH to accept the XAJ codes).

Thanks for any advice.

Mike

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Mike Dodd - Montpelier, VA
Modeling Virginian Railway, 1956
http://www.mindspring.com/~mdodd/vgn_main.htm

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