2014-02-21, 00:04
Hey folks looking for a little assistance if possible with the HA part of the CE script.
I am a long time user of the CE script, I have been happily using it to play trailers, slides and generally wow the family and friends when movie night falls on my turn.
However I started dabbling with Home Automation with iRule and some lightwaveRF gear. I have it all running as a stand alone sweet as a nut but really would like to be able to control my lighting from the CE script like some of the other forum users (Dimming lights at certain event triggers, turning off at movie start and lights up at movie end)
As it stands I am able to control my lighting via iRule on my ipad and iphone, the wifi link for controlling the lights receives a UDP packet broadcast to port 9760 I just broadcast this out over 255.255.255.255, the wifi link receives the command and does the rest.
I am running XBMC via OpenELEC Stable - ION x86_64 3.2.4, reading back and forth through the forum I believe I will have to install the Event Receiver plugin to allow it to receive broadcast triggers from CE...BUT..can I send & more importantly how would I send the UDP broadcast out from this.
Thank you in advance for any advice at all. This forum has helped me out so much in the past.
I am a long time user of the CE script, I have been happily using it to play trailers, slides and generally wow the family and friends when movie night falls on my turn.
However I started dabbling with Home Automation with iRule and some lightwaveRF gear. I have it all running as a stand alone sweet as a nut but really would like to be able to control my lighting from the CE script like some of the other forum users (Dimming lights at certain event triggers, turning off at movie start and lights up at movie end)
As it stands I am able to control my lighting via iRule on my ipad and iphone, the wifi link for controlling the lights receives a UDP packet broadcast to port 9760 I just broadcast this out over 255.255.255.255, the wifi link receives the command and does the rest.
I am running XBMC via OpenELEC Stable - ION x86_64 3.2.4, reading back and forth through the forum I believe I will have to install the Event Receiver plugin to allow it to receive broadcast triggers from CE...BUT..can I send & more importantly how would I send the UDP broadcast out from this.
Thank you in advance for any advice at all. This forum has helped me out so much in the past.