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I had originally thought that the HB internals might not allow the remaining parameters to update until my script relinquished control but it must be possible to just yield (do events) because big scripts like Oslers remain resident / are event driven . I am not sure if this related to it being a fo...

I have a situation where a plugin is updating several properties associated with a device all at the same time - the source is actually a single Ethernet packet (xAP) that groups values for several associated properties . Think of this as say Artist, Album, Track and Genre that all change at once bu...

The timing wasn't brilliant was it If you do get an opportunity to change this then making it to a subsequent beta will suffice for me.

Cheers Kevin

What would be the best thing to do about this Scott ? The device names, and property values are being auto created (in this case by the xAP plugin) based on the the original names which will always have the '.' character in them - and at least two of them :-( Is it possible to change something in Ho...

Thanks Osler - I'll give that a try.. However I'm also now thinking it might be a different problem as values from other properties are being substitued as their name ie %%property.name%% rather than the property value. I'm selecting them via the task editor dialogs. I wonder if its something to do ...

I'm trying to add some data onto the end of an existing property value (actually the call duration for a completed call) -so in the task I have updated the value of "PropertyName1" which is "John Smith" with %%PropertyName1%% (%%PropertyName2%%) intending to append the call durat...

You are absolutely correct . I had looked at this before but for some reason when the device creates these fields it unsets this option and I had just assumed......

Many thanks... K

There are probably many people who would love to see a favourite device supported within HouseBot but don't have the experience to write a device driver in C++. Well now there's another way and you can use a wide variety of languages including old favourites like Visual Basic or even plain VB script...

I am trying to trigger an event when a parameter value is updated. Previously I did this with a "trigger if not equal to 'impossible value' " which of course triggers each time it changes. However this doesn't trigger when a paramater is updated with the same value it had before. So if for...

Hi ... great news here, as these issues have been recurring for me too but I got a bit diverted onto another project, so I couldn't spend the time here. Anyway back, but still busy. I may also revisit supporting this with a direct xAP-audio schema - as we previously touched upon... Thanks for your c...

Again , although not the ideal solution you could use the xAP HouseBot plugin (about to exit beta into release version). It is designed to allow you to easily network all your automation devices over Ethernet . UDP (rather than TCP) is used because it allows for broadcast implementation allowing all...

Thanks, that's useful for some of what I want to do but when the underlying application shows a different screen I need to remove the HouseBot overlay totally, and in other screens I would like to change the particular screen the HB overlay is displaying..

K

Is there a way to hide a specific remote screen using a property value ? I'm trying to superimpose a HB remote over the top of an existing application but only at certain times. I can create a property in HB to say when this should happen. I'd then like the remote to just appear or hide. Minimising ...

Hi, Lots to play with here - looking forward to it :-) I have a question on the status display aspect. From reading above it seems that the new status will not be available until the re-index has completed. Even though only one track may have changed meta data I think my re-index takes a very long t...

Yes - xAP networks all your I/O devices essentially so they are no longer tied to one application but available to all. Your control software can be distributed too, so you can augment HouseBot with some embedded control. or even setup scenarios like redundancy. I use this approach so that vital asp...