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WAY Off Topic / Re: Paul's new house!

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:41:21 PM »

I think I broke the forum, I can't post the art I plan to hang above the desk.

I shall try again another time after less whisky!

Night all.

-P

xxx

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WAY Off Topic / Re: Paul's new house!

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:17:44 PM »

Some more...

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WAY Off Topic / Paul's new house!

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:16:57 PM »

Hello all,

Just thought I'd share the space that I will eventually be completely automating considering I've been talking about getting a house pretty much since we met!

Not a lot of photos but I just took a look round my Den as I sat supping some whisky and thought I would share just a few of the music room and the Boudoir

Still loads to do, the walls are a bit bare and I've spent this evening working on some art work in photoshop.  I'll attach that too...

Hope to have some slightly more exciting video up on my channel soon but need to get some Vox commando action in every room first

Thanks,

-P

xxx

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: shortcut for volume amplification

« on: May 11, 2015, 07:03:08 PM »

I could have sworn I'd replied to this!

We are in!  The house is shaping up and is so exciting! The music room is now called "The Den" and has all my music gear setup, two big sexy desks and loads of LED lighting   Will have to set up my controller from Kalle soon.

I'll ping some photos across on another thread.

On this topic, thank you very much to all involved, it works great

-P

xxx

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Kodi (XBMC) Frodo / Gotham / Isengard / Jarvis / Re: volume amplification shortcut

« on: April 14, 2015, 04:13:25 PM »

Yep, this is awesome.  Thanks a million!

xxx

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Feature Requests / Re: Tenvis IP camera

« on: March 29, 2015, 07:07:18 AM »

Hi all,

Finally got round to taking another look at this.

Sadly the URLs you guys suggested just come back with file not found.  I wondered if I was at least authenticated so I tried navigating to the normal url from there but it immediately asks for username and password.  I suddenly realised Ispy must be authenticating so dug through its settings and found this...

http://192.168.0.241:82/videostream.asf?user=admin&pwd=*****&resolution=32&rate=0

So I tried that in Internet explorer and it launches Media Player (though isn't able to display anything), I presume therefore that this is the format required to authenticate on to the camera, but Windows just doesn't know how to handle the feed thereafter.

I don't know what to change the above to in order to send it a command though.  I took a few guesses...

http://192.168.0.241:82/user=admin&pwd=*****&cmd=getmdalarm 
404 not found

http://192.168.0.241:82/user=admin&pwd=*****&cmd=setmdalarm&-switch=off
404 not found

http://192.168.0.241:82/user=admin&pwd=*****/cgi-bin/hi3510/param.cgi?cmd=setmdalarm&-switch=off
404 not found

http://192.168.0.241:82/cgi-bin/hi3510/param.cgi?cmd=setmdalarm&-switch=off/user=admin&pwd=*****
404 not found


Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

-P

xxx

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Integration Ideas / Re: Broadlink pro with RF

« on: March 29, 2015, 05:39:45 AM »

 

I am of course talking about the project where my British charm convinces you to give up hour after hour of your valuable time to butcher the Broadlink device into being controlled with Vox commando

No worries bud, I know it's yet another big ask from the idiot from across the pond.

Does anyone have any recommendations on which way to go?  I'm thinking two possibilities, both of which I would need to go do some learning!...

1. Robo browser controlling BlueStacks
2. Vox commando -> Eventghost on PC -> Eventghost on Phone -> Tasker -> Broadlink

Does anyone have any other suggestions?  If not, which of the above do you think I should pursue?

Thanks as always,

-P

xxx

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Integration Ideas / Re: Broadlink pro with RF

« on: March 28, 2015, 08:21:23 AM »

James, Is is a project you'd consider or is it just too ugly until they release a windows SDK?

My brain immediately starts jumping to ugly work arounds because I'm not skilled enough with coding.  Maybe something with this:

http://www.andyroid.net/

?

-P

xxx

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Integration Ideas / Broadlink pro with RF

« on: March 27, 2015, 05:12:23 PM »

Anyone seen these yet?  Anyone had a play with them?...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Broadlink-RM-Pro-Intelligent-Automation-Black/dp/B00LWO7GM8

I've literally just received mine but haven't taken it out the box yet.  Has anyone looked at whether it could be controlled by Vox?  It claims it can control IR and RF and can do  433MHz & 315 Mhz frequencies!

It's ridiculously cheap so seems like a really good thing for the community if we could get Vox working with it.  I have no idea what protocol it uses

What do you guys reckon?

There are a couple documents and SDK's here but totally beyond my comprehension...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B65vYtefY0h2d1NZbEtCUFgwc2hCeHNXMnFmOEdRU1VrcUl3/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B65vYtefY0h2aE1LdWF5RG9sX00/view?usp=sharing

Thanks,

-P

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Feature Requests / Re: Tenvis IP camera

« on: March 02, 2015, 04:09:47 PM »

Hahaha. Evidently I didn't read the article very well.

Thanks guys, this all sounds promising.

The woman has now commandeered the PC to watch 'Suits' so I'll give all of this a go when I get chance and let you know how I get on.

Xxx

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Feature Requests / Re: Tenvis IP camera

« on: March 02, 2015, 02:50:48 PM »

The alert function of the camera is independent of the PC.  If I switch it on it immediately starts emailing me whenever the camera itself detects motion and won't stop doing so until I log in to the GUI and turn it off.  My hope is to have Vox turn it on when I leave the house and then the PC's can go into standby and I will still get alerts if there is movement because the camera does all the work.  When I come home I will use Tasker to bring the PC's back out of standby as I pull on to the driveway so I can then tell Alexander to turn the alert function off again.

I tried inspect element on your suggestion.  I've found this under 'event listeners' for the "Upload image on alarm" tick box...

handler: function subiaoanxia()
isAttribute: true
lineNumber: 355
listenerBody: "function subiaoanxia()↵{↵   subiao = true;↵}"
node: document
sourceName: "http://192.168.0.241:82/alarm.htm"
type: "mousedown"
useCapture: false

Something tells me that isn't a huge help

Robo browser sounds like it could be a huge help and useful for me in other scenarios too!  I took a look at the wiki and I've installed the plugin, restarted vox and gone to edit...

I added a command called RoboB Camera motion and I seem to be stuck at the first hurdle thereafter.  As a test I added RoboB.Navigate and put the action in as http://www.bbc.co.uk

I pressed Save and execute but it seems to do nothing.  Am I doing it wrong, or is it doing something invisible to me?  If so how do I make it visible?

xxx

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Feature Requests / Re: Tenvis IP camera

« on: March 02, 2015, 02:15:41 PM »

Doesn't look like it's happening

There's no change in the URL when clicking around.

Found this, but none of those URLs work for me, and none of them are the functionality I was looking for anyway: http://forum.tenvis.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8723

Annoyingly a browse around the camera's URL doesn't actually have any way to turn the camera on and off anyway so that's likely out the window regardless.  Something to switch the motion detection on and off is what I'm really interested in but whichever mode I choose the URL just stays the same when ticking the box and/or when pressing submit.  Right clicking doesn't give me the option to copy the URL so I presume that means I won't find it the easy way, if I view source on the page there's barely anything there so I presume it is coded in some way that my little brain is unlikely to ever fathom.

I've never used wireshark.  Is it easy enough to use and is it likely I'll find an answer with it?

-P

xxx

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Feature Requests / Tenvis IP camera

« on: March 02, 2015, 12:26:36 PM »

Hey guys,

Not sure if this is technically a feature request as I imagine there is already a way to do this. (Although a Tenvis plugin would be awesome.)

Sooooo... I have a Tenvis IP camera which has can be turned on and off and set to focus on a particular stored location amongst other things. You can do this by visiting it's IP with a browser, logging in and using one of the several methods therein activex mode, server push mode, and VLC plugin mode.

I'm interested in controlling most of those aspects using vox but mostly the ability to turn motion detection on and off (the camera has built in functionality to email you images without the PC being turned on) and it does so whenever it detects movement.

Question is, has anyone used Vox to do any of the above? I can foresee it being really useful to extend my alarm system project.

It's one of these:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00H759YXA/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_7?colid=11KM16IONPSKC&coliid=I2YFMCJ2EBTT14&vs=1

You know what I'm like, I'm pretty good at manipulating stuff but pretty shoddy when it comes to anything else. Is there something in vox that can tap in to one of these "modes"? I'm guessing it's probably something straight forward but any advice would be appreciated.  I can think of all sorts of cool things I could do with it with some help from one of you fine gents / ladies.

Thanks,

-P

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: shortcut for volume amplification

« on: March 02, 2015, 12:11:07 PM »

Wicked! Thanks for letting me know matey!

Neesha and I will finally be moving into our dream home in a couple weeks and there will be much automation happening and I shall remember to implement this

Xxx

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General Discussion / My home alarm system catches it's first burglar!!

« on: February 08, 2015, 07:31:03 PM »

James, you had a massive hand in getting this working so I have you to thank for Neesha's wedding dress fund still being in our possession!  You can't see off camera, but there is basically nothing on the shelf he is reaching for except for the wedding fund jar labelled "wedding fund".

Thought I'd share this in case anyone was thinking about setting it up but hadn't got round to it.  Do it now!  It could save you serious money!

Thanks,

-P

xxx