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Goahead

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January 27, 2006
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Hi

Im triyng to find a way to make an app to use at home (kichen) in an 17" LCD with touch screen and a old pc with software tv tunner (dont need to record tv there, just watch).

The goal is to make just one screen with live TV (small in center of screen) + channel up/down + volume, weather with just the today and tomorrow display, news rss scrolling at the bottom, in near future 4 video inputs (cameras indoor and outdoor) or just one small video window with random view of the cameras... and EIB/x10 acess in the future for ligthing since it can be done with Vbasic very easy etc etc....
Acess to music/movies, and other things may be done with the start page button and then navigate to the desired location.

At first i thougth that maybe i could do a plugin for it to mediaPortal but joining so many diferent things in one page could not be achieved so easely. (dont now about the policy of MP to make such changes in program).

In other hand, maybe if i use visual studio .net i also could make a nice interface to achieve my goals.

Im not a programer, but i think i can learn very fast, since i already had c++ in college and i can learn VB and get some source code.

I ask you for advice, so i can choose for the best way to do this.
I have read the "make a plugin.doc" from MP forum, but i dont now if its gona be hard to get this done.

Of course , if someone want to try to do the "Just one screen" plugin i would love to help him.

MediaPortal for the Living room, and the Plugin "justOneScreen" for the kichen!

Having breakfast with all the info needed displayed at one time

Goahead
 

Clodo

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July 8, 2005
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Milan, Italy
Hi, i'm working on the almost same idea, because i have an home-automation and many htpc in the house. i'm talking about it in the 4 post of
this topic.

My focus now is about an MP plugin to control EIB (Konnex) system.

You speak about EIB and an easy sample in VB, where do you find it? thanks![/url]
 

Goahead

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January 27, 2006
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Hi Clodo


You can find some nice info on that here:
http://www.dehof.de/eib/

VB code:
http://www.schlaps-automation.de/

Convert Linux to Windows
http://home.arcor.de/regina.rau/helpKNXlive/

Linux:
http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/eib4linux/

And a nice forum:
http://294.board.webtropia.com/board.php?action=threads_show&boardforum_id=294&page=1

Its german but with some google translation you will see the EIB2Net, EIBserver with the source code.
The EIB->RS232 is also a very inexpensive DIY circuit compared with manufactures solutions.

Im building my house now(at the first floor now), and since it will be equiped with EIB i may in a near future try out your work :) and in the mean time i may try to help you with my poor noladge in code.

ETS3 can export OLE of a project...isnt this a good help to import house config into MP plugin control?

So many things for x10 and none for EIB

Goahead
 

Clodo

Portal Pro
July 8, 2005
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Milan, Italy
Many many thanks for the links!

Actually i'm studying ETS3 for programming my modules (i have some problem with dimmer...), but when i finish, i want to implement a C# classes for simply send and receive telegram to already-programmed groups, and after a user-friendly plugin for MediaPortal.

I can't read german (i'm italian) and my major problem is that i own a BCU from Hager, and (i understand) Hager BCU are only BCU Type 1, and the most library on the net (for example, eibcontrol.sourceforge.net) and also many of the links above support only BCU Type 2.

bye!
 

Goahead

Portal Member
January 27, 2006
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Hi Clodo

Glad i could help

Well..
you can always build a new rs232 interface compatible with BCU2 and ft 1.2 i think. with the TP-UART from siemens BIM M113. cheaper and easy instead of buying a new one.

Dont take to long to implement that plugin :)

Theres lots of software available now, and all of them are internet browser compatible. (easier to implement in MCE2005)

I will try to make some code with visual studio .net 2005 and try to make tv apear in a small aplication..after that i think it will be easy to implement EIB and compile to MP plugin.

Gaohead
 

Clodo

Portal Pro
July 8, 2005
53
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Milan, Italy
thanks goahead.

my house isn't finished yet, but in 2/3 month i can enter and start to develop/test some library... for the moment, i need to search some 'pre-builded' hardware, i don't know anything about electric-stuffs, BCU2.... thanks again! bye!
 

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