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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / Re: HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
« on: April 29, 2011, 03:27:01 pm »
Elf... ya know  8)

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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / Re: HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE
« on: April 28, 2011, 11:58:17 pm »
Happy Easter

from Audrey and Jake!  :)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Want a Smart House?? Now Within Reach!!
« on: April 28, 2011, 01:25:17 am »
Also check out the HomeSeer forum...

http://board.homeseer.com/

Back when, that's where I and a bunch of others would hack out our code.

WARNING... I spent an unbelievable number of hours over the approximate 2 years I was playing around with that stuff.  I would recommend that most people just go with the stuff/plugins that are already available and supported UNLESS you really like projects, and in that case I say hit the forum.  When I was doing all the coding it was mostly because there wasn't the things available that I wanted at the time and now many of them are.

As for all of the code that i have on my HomeSeer system... it was made very unfriendly to make it easier for me to make it very specific to my situation and would not work outside of my system.  But I did work with several projects on the forum with others... the main one was a project called "Now Playing".  But again, that was years ago and the last I knew, one of the other guys on the forum that I communicated with often, picked up my code, added to it, and made a plugin that they were selling back then.  So my final advice would be...

- Use as much of the ready made (work out of the box) stuff as you can.
- And if you like projects... hit the forum and see what happens.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Can't find Common Phases
« on: April 13, 2011, 12:49:25 am »
I think I found it....

http://openmind.media.mit.edu/
Open Mind Common Sense - 1033182 statements

EDIT... nope... false alarm... this is just an new online version

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Want a Smart House?? Now Within Reach!!
« on: April 06, 2011, 09:33:40 pm »
@Art... I still use HomeSeer... http://www.homeseer.com/

I spent a couple years a while back writing all kinds of webpages to control all my stuff and purchase several of the 3COM Audrey Internet Appliances when the bottom fell out of that market, (they sold for $500 new, I got 7 of them for around $80 each).  There was a lot of people doing the HomeSeer/Audrey touch screen thing then and we all hacked them severely to get just what we wanted for automated control of lights, security, cams, home theater, Music, slideshows, etc.  You could easily interface HAL with HomeSeer with just a little code.  I definately had my HAL character Audrey involved, but after a while, I turned of the voice recognition because me and Audrey started sounding like we were arguing with each other... funny, but you had to be there.    I still am running my old system, but I'm giving a lot of thought to updating to the latest HomeSeer and building a whole new system, (i love projects).  The new HomeSeer, plugins, etc, look a lot more refined then back when I was tinkering around with it and you could probably do a lot right out of the box with a few added plugins.

I ramble...  :-X

Software... HomeSeer
Hardware... ZWave
Fun.... coding in HTML, javascript, vbscript to make custom webpages.



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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Want a Smart House?? Now Within Reach!!
« on: April 04, 2011, 10:32:00 pm »
ZWave is much better than  X10... I used X10 for a while with a program called HomeSeer.  Had lots of problems with the X10 being flaky... switched over to ZWave and they work every time.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can't find Common Phases
« on: April 01, 2011, 01:04:31 am »
Once upon a time I seen a post with a link to a text file of a bunch of common phases and I thought I had seen that post here on the Zabaware forum but I can't find it... anyone know the link I'm talking about?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Re: Hal for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad. Need testers.
« on: March 29, 2011, 03:02:20 pm »
Q: Will there be an option/switch to run it from your own device or web server if you have one?  My HAL (Audrey) on my home network has a lot of personal and business information that I would not want to have stored on someone else's server.

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I'm not sure about your script, but with my basescript, I had to MOVE the PLUGIN2 area in the brain to just below the first HALCOMMAND line and make my basescript the PLUGIN2 to get it to work correctly.

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General Discussion / Re: Nice New Forum!!
« on: March 04, 2011, 02:22:36 pm »
UdaMan!!  Thanks!  8)

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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / Re: Hacked Elvis Alive
« on: March 03, 2011, 10:39:45 pm »
NICE!!  This looks like a really nice/fun project.  I would like to do something like that with my HAL also one day.  I have several WowWee robots and 4... count 'em... 4, Mr. Clock Radios...



I picked them up when I found them on a clearance shelf at Walgreens at 80% off.

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Thanks for the reply, Medeksza!  Looks like you are on the right track of what I'm looking for.  My main problem is syntax... I don't do enough programming these daze to remember all that stuff, so typically I try to find a SMALL completely working script that maybe just does one or two things (you know, small), then use it to get my syntax correct and add or change what is needed to get what I want done.  Often, a 2000 line script of mine, started out as a 20 line script I found elsewhere that just showed me the HOW of it.

I will take what you posted and see if that will get me there... and THANKS again for the reply... I appreciate it!  BUT... I still would LOVE it if someone could post a little 3 to 20 line text of a .vbs that actually would run when you double click on the file, that would make the HapTek player appear with a character in it and send just 1 HAP file to that window.  I could take that little file and turn it into some really cool BIG files... just got to find the little working example.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: GRETTA PLUGINS
« on: March 03, 2011, 10:16:11 pm »
WOW!  You sound a lot like me.  I do most everything in a logical manner, it must be as good/fast or better/faster with the same or less amount of effort.  I'm an IT manager and my tech assistant kids me all the time about how much I am that way... typically he will start a conversation with me something like this... "The subject is the file server. The result is that we should schedule some additional archiving, but it is not critical... now here is the story".  He apparently knows from experience that I want the subject and the results first before I listen to 5 minutes of this and that.... MAN... that's bad.

On the programming... it is also kind of the same for me... I gave it up years and years ago because I would too often see the sun come up.  Back then, I was programming in combinations of C, machine language, basic and script.  Over the years, I would get pulled back in a few times here and there mostly due to something I wanted that was not been done the way I wanted it by others, such as home automation and A.I., but I TRIED to keep a lid on it... it almost never went that way... so I try to avoid it.  Meanwhile, I'm getting very rusty on programming and have thought several times to take some classes to force me to get back to it, but then I remember that I need to stay away.  It's an on-going battle with me. :o  The BIG problems is... PROGRAMMING IS SO MUCH FUN!!!  If I won the Lotto right now... I would get back into programming big time, because THEN I would actually have some of the time I would need to do it.

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General Discussion / Re: Nice New Forum!!
« on: March 03, 2011, 10:01:27 pm »
I can see the arms behind the head HAP... I've got that one... how many HAPs are we talking about to get the hips going back and forth and what are they?  I might already have them and have just never realized the combination... I've got a LOT of HAPs!

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Here is something that I've done a few times when I had something that should work...but it did not.

- I would make a copy of my "basescript.uhp" and rename it to basescript.uhp.HOLD".
- Then I would pull everything out of the "basescript.uhp" except for the stuff needed for the part that wasn't working.
- Then I would put a bunch of MsgBox lines in the script at various lines to pop up and let me know the progress of the vars.

Once I found the problem and solved it, I would cut and paste that back into the "basescript.uhp.HOLD", delete the "basescript.uhp" and rename the "basescript.uhp.HOLD" to "basescript.uhp".  It has often been the only way I could simplify things enough to get the problem resolved.

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