12-23-2013, 10:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-23-2013, 10:14 AM by HenleyBranch.)
Hi
I have two home control systems running, one based on Comfort for security and security-related X10 control of lights, and another based on Perceptive Automation Indigo running on a Mac server as part of our home network of Macs, controlling iTunes library, multi-device iOS control of X10 lights, scene setting etc. Both very reliable independently.
My project for the next 12 month is to integrate them better. Currently I have some X10 connectivity between them, for example, an alarm in Comfort generates a alert email and iMessage using Applescript on Indigo, using an X10 on command as a trigger. This has proven less reliable than using X10 for lighting control for some reason, but was the only way a novice like myself could initially find to do this.
Both systems are sitting on the wired ethernet network of the house, so there must be a better way. I am aware for example, using Comfigurator, that flags are reported live to Comfigurator by Comfort, so Comfort must be \'broadcasting\' the status of those flags over TCP/IP.
I therefore want to get Indigo to listen in. I have a plug in for Indigo, which does exactly that http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/online/network.html but I am outside my comfort (no pun) zone here and am not sure what protocol information I would need to get this to work.
Has anyone any experience of making this kind of \'listening\' to Comfort\'s TCP/IP traffic work?
Any tips, gratefully received.
Henley
I have two home control systems running, one based on Comfort for security and security-related X10 control of lights, and another based on Perceptive Automation Indigo running on a Mac server as part of our home network of Macs, controlling iTunes library, multi-device iOS control of X10 lights, scene setting etc. Both very reliable independently.
My project for the next 12 month is to integrate them better. Currently I have some X10 connectivity between them, for example, an alarm in Comfort generates a alert email and iMessage using Applescript on Indigo, using an X10 on command as a trigger. This has proven less reliable than using X10 for lighting control for some reason, but was the only way a novice like myself could initially find to do this.
Both systems are sitting on the wired ethernet network of the house, so there must be a better way. I am aware for example, using Comfigurator, that flags are reported live to Comfigurator by Comfort, so Comfort must be \'broadcasting\' the status of those flags over TCP/IP.
I therefore want to get Indigo to listen in. I have a plug in for Indigo, which does exactly that http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/online/network.html but I am outside my comfort (no pun) zone here and am not sure what protocol information I would need to get this to work.
Has anyone any experience of making this kind of \'listening\' to Comfort\'s TCP/IP traffic work?
Any tips, gratefully received.
Henley
