http://www.domoticaworld.com Thu, 10 May 2012 18:18:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/new-virtualization-platform/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/new-virtualization-platform/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:10:08 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1957
For a long time I have been running Homeseer in a Virtual Machine under VMware Server 2.0. VMware server 2.0 however was end-of-support >1 year ago. The last software update I believe was from 2009/2010. Plus the fact that I had big problems getting it to work on a Windows … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/new-virtualization-platform/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/how-to-add-special-ir-signals/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/how-to-add-special-ir-signals/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:40:10 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1942
After receiving my new TV (Philips, 9000 series) I found that to open “Net TV” you have to go into a menu, select Net TV and click.. Horrible. So I wanted to program this under an unused key on my cable decoder remote (more info here). Requirements - Homeseer - … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/how-to-add-special-ir-signals/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/scripts/dj/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/scripts/dj/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:00:15 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1812
You’re sitting on the couch with your laptop – working, when your wife asks: could you switch on lamp 8? Now there’s a couple of things you can do Completely ignore her NOOOO !!   Walk to that lamp and switch it on Well that’s an old world way of doing … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/scripts/dj/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/hardware/new-rfxcom-transceiver/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/hardware/new-rfxcom-transceiver/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:15:20 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1849
Here’s some nice news from our friends at RFXCOM. They just released the USB RFX Transceiver 433Mhz (EU). If you want a USB RFXCOM module, this is it!  € 95,20 (excl. shipping) is a fair price for the huge amount of functionality that you get. Nice Low cost Nice packaging … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/hardware/new-rfxcom-transceiver/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/uncategorized/thank-you-for-your-donation/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/uncategorized/thank-you-for-your-donation/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:49:35 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1844 http://www.domoticaworld.com/uncategorized/thank-you-for-your-donation/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/migrate-homeseer-to-new-server/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/migrate-homeseer-to-new-server/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:34:52 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1678
  Here’s instructions and lessons learned when migrating Homeseer to a new (different) Operating System. In my case from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 7 Ultimate. Select Operating System Select OS / Buy license: Win 7 Pro Why Windows 7 Pro 64-bit? Errhh… (comparison) A poll on the Homeseer forum … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/migrate-homeseer-to-new-server/feed/ 2 http://www.domoticaworld.com/home-automation-news/a-day-made-of-glass/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/home-automation-news/a-day-made-of-glass/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:07:39 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1799 read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/home-automation-news/a-day-made-of-glass/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/homeseer-telnet-script/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/homeseer-telnet-script/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:24:49 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1644
Goal Access telnet enabled devices to send commands and/or get information. What can you do? A couple of examples: - Telnet to a switch and turn off Power-over-Ethernet for a specific port. - Telnet to a router and grab data about bytes-send/received and put this in a HS device How … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/roadmap/homeseer-telnet-script/feed/ 2 http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/geofence-integration-homeseer/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/geofence-integration-homeseer/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:13:16 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1756
On my Car Integration page you can see how I have setup a tracking system that integrates with Homeseer. What I really wanted is Geofences. This results in a couple of HS devices that tell me where my car is. Example: When my car enters a geofence I get a … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/geofence-integration-homeseer/feed/ 0 http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/homeseer-email-integration/ http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/homeseer-email-integration/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:47:04 +0000 DJ http://www.domoticaworld.com/?p=1767
Homeseer can send emails but you cannot send emails to Homeseer. Using Jon00‘s Email plugin you can do this. Jon00′s plugin support forum:  board.homeseer.com Functionality: Using email to trigger events and switch devices, integrated web-mail interface, announcements, etc. I use this script for a couple of things of which the Geo-fence GPS … read more...]]> http://www.domoticaworld.com/projects/homeseer-email-integration/feed/ 0