2008-10-29, 19:40
I have not actually tried this, but from what I have read this should be possible with something like homeseer + compatible lights or probably mr. house. With homeseer you can set up simple "if/then" actions that can work with ip based, z-wave, x-10 etc modules. So in other words, you could tell homeseer to listen to xbmc and IF the eventserver sends a command that someone hit "play" THEN dim the lights. Homeseer is a bit expensive but I think there are quite a few more resonable (or free) apps that would do the same thing. I don't see a need to create a new app when there are already some that probably could take directions from xbmc's eventserver and already support lights, thermostat, cameras, etc. Just my 2 pence.