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- rickardkk - 2010-01-25 20:20
I have one big issue in my home regarding the media and automation setup.
Me and my girlfriend use our iPhones as remotes for both lights, AC and Media (several HTPCs with XBMC).
I use EventGhost for home automation and all my AV electronics is controlled by XBMCs EventServer + the HTTP API.
The issue is that when I receive a phone call while playing music or video I can't pause or dim the audio before answering.
It would be great to have the Notify Pro app integrate with EventGhost. So EventGhost then could tell XBMC to pause or dim the audio volume on my AV Receiver or whatever on incoming calls.
As the WIFI is disconnected during sleep it would be great to use GPS to tell Notify that your ar home (as you would not like an incoming call to interact with media or home automation if your not at home).
I would gladly pay a great premium for this kind of functionallity (especially now after spending days trying to solve this with BT).
- johoja - 2010-01-25 20:44
rickardkk Wrote:I use EventGhost for home automation and all my AV electronics is controlled by XBMCs EventServer + the HTTP API.
The issue is that when I receive a phone call while playing music or video I can't pause or dim the audio before answering.
It would be great to have the Notify Pro app integrate with EventGhost. So EventGhost then could tell XBMC to pause or dim the audio volume on my AV Receiver or whatever on incoming calls.
I will have to look into that...is there an API or something similar for EventGhost, that would allow me to send Events easily...? Pherhaps something similar to XBMC's http api. If there is...adding support should not be that hard. I've written Notify Pro in a very modular way.
Quote:As the WIFI is disconnected during sleep it would be great to use GPS to tell Notify that your ar home (as you would not like an incoming call to interact with media or home automation if your not at home).
Yeah, I'm aware that WiFi is disconnected during sleep, In a not yet released version I've changed the behaviour of Notify to check if the address is reachable...if its not it will wait for upto 10 seconds for the reachability state to change, and then continue. (If the state changes sooner then 10 seconds it will also continue). A state change would be...a wifi connection being established...it takes about 3-4 seconds on my iPhone to establish a wifi connection when waking up from sleep.
Quote:I would gladly pay a great premium for this kind of functionallity (especially now after spending days trying to solve this with BT).
There is no premium...as long as you've bought the app, I'm happy to continue adding functionality. It's the people who don't buy it and start demanding things/want support. That I'm not to pleased with.
- rickardkk - 2010-01-25 21:03
Great!
You could make use of the EventGhost Webserver.
So there is no need to write a receiver part (server) to be used with Notify. Just to be able to feed EventGhost with events would do it!!
- johoja - 2010-01-25 21:23
rickardkk Wrote:Great!
You could make use of the EventGhost Webserver.
So there is no need to write a receiver part (server) to be used with Notify. Just to be able to feed EventGhost with events would do it!!
Awesome....I'll do that....could you also provide me with a list of events you want sent.
- rickardkk - 2010-01-25 21:50
Great!!
Maybe the TCP Listener/Receiver should be used instead (easier to pass more data?).
Don't know all data that can be passed. But for starters:
Incoming call
Incoming call picked up
Incoming call ended
Incoming SMS (text)
Phone number/contact
- johoja - 2010-01-25 22:42
rickardkk Wrote:Great!!
Maybe the TCP Listener/Receiver should be used instead (easier to pass more data?).
Don't know all data that can be passed. But for starters:
Incoming call
Incoming call picked up
Incoming call ended
Incoming SMS (text)
Phone number/contact
Yes...all possible.
- zbuh - 2010-01-26 00:30
Hi...
I discover this app today.. and bought it
At home it's working (with the Wifi sleep problem)
But at work, i'm not seeing how to use it... (and that's way I bought it)
I'm on a LAN only (no Wifi), and connected to the Internet though a proxy.
How can I forward the events to my local PC?
- stoli - 2010-01-26 02:05
zbuh Wrote:But at work, i'm not seeing how to use it... (and that's way I bought it)
I'm on a LAN only (no Wifi), and connected to the Internet though a proxy.
How can I forward the events to my local PC?
You have to use the public ip of your local pc (if there is one) in that case.
- zbuh - 2010-01-26 09:11
stoli Wrote:You have to use the public ip of your local pc (if there is one) in that case.
I dont have a public Ip... I'm behind the company firewall
- johoja - 2010-01-26 18:33
zbuh Wrote:I dont have a public Ip... I'm behind the company firewall
That would be hard to do unless you can connect your phone to your companies VPN.....not sure how else to circumvent that.....anyone have any ideas?