2011-04-03, 02:34
lams144 Wrote:Here you have a good source to control X10 devices and speaker through homeseer home automation software in a simple way:
http://smart-living.geoblog.be/?p=4&lang=en
This could be one choice for home automation control (homeseer controls x10, z-ware...)
I have done a macro in eventghost, asociated to a key in my mce remote, using that plugin. It dims or switch off my lights, then send a key to xbmc (in my case ctrl+shift+h) asociated to cinema experience in keyboard.xml with this code:
<h mod="ctrl,shift">XBMC.RunScript(script.cinema.experience)</h>
The result is my lights dimmed and then cinema experience started. More Cinema Experience for your tv room with the touch of a key in your remote or keyboard.
The next release has a file called 'home_automation.py' which the script will use to trigger events based on the Home Automation Settings(should be visible in the present version, in Settings) This file will be automatically copied to the userdata/addon_data/script.cinema.experience/ha_scripts folder(if it does not exist) This way it will not be copied over whenever an update happens to the script.
In this python script file you can add any programming that is needed to trigger events. I think this is the best way right now because there are a few different Home automation systems, various equipment and different OS's.
True, many may not have the programming skills to modify this script, I think there is enough people that can and probably willing to share(as you have)