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Hi there,

Trying out some basic home automation scripting, eg turning out lights on playback, etc. Lights are controlled by sending a simple udp-string. For example, the the following syntax would turn the lights off: udp://ipadress:post/xxxxx.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of choices (X10, Cinema Experience, XBMC Event Receiver) I have to start playing with. So what would be the easiest way to get something up?

After a night of tinkering, I have set up an sh-script which executes a single command. For example, calling Lightsoff.sh will turn the lights off. Tested it, works from the commandline and cron. :-)

So now I'm contemplating how to get XBMC to call said script. Any ideas? Thanks!

Do you know OpenHab? http://www.openhab.org

You can use it to control your lights (it does supports sending UDP data) and It already have a binding to XBMC - you can use it to monitor a xbmc event (eg play starts) and fire an udp command.

I'm using it to control my home automation.

I didn't know Openhab, but I'll certainly keep it in mind. Thanks for your reply, very much appreciated.

I'm still looking for something simpler, though. As I have the bash-scripts already set up, it's basically a question of XBMC running script A, B and C when a movie starts, pauses and ends. Anyone get any ideas? I'll do some googling in the meantime too. :-)

Yeah mate, see this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=151011

Briljant. Thanks a lot!