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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xAPPO" data-source="post: 126945" data-attributes="member: 27749">Hi Juan,      Not a MP user (yet)  but as I understand it HomeSeer will bring a lot of the scripting smarts and HA side to MP - which is useful to many people who have automation and control interests but that is not MP's primary role so the two sit together as great partners.  xAP just provides the 'glue' between them.    Once you xAP enable HomeSeer then not only are xAP devices recognised and controllable within the HomeSeer world but existing HomeSeer devices become xAP enabled using the BSC (Basic Status and Control) schema. Sometimes this is status only but usually it's fully controllable depending on how the plugin is written. This means that all the available plugins for HS can present information to xAP and hence MP.     Now that MP has a xAP plugin supporting BSC this means that really good interaction between MP and HS should already be achievable. You should be able to create virtual devices in HomeSeer that are controllable from MP and the other way around you should be able to display in MP the status of HomeSeer devices. Using just these basic interfaces you should also be able to run macros/scripts within HomeSeer triggered from MP and display information back within MP.  I believe the xAP MP plugin fully supports the BSC 'text' type which can be used for just this display purpose.   The xAP HomeSeer plugin does also support a schema for directly triggering scripts within HS but even without that using a virtual device in HomeSeer setup as a xAP BSC device provides a solution that works already.   If you do have a go and run into any difficulties just shout and I'll get you up and running....    KevinPS/FAQ  Just to mention a common issue first time users often get tripped up on once they start to use multiple xAP aware applications. . Make sure you have a xAP 'hub' running as the FIRST xAP application launched on that machine. Some applications including most based on xFX (eg this MP plugin) include an inbuilt hub but most xAP users choose to run an independent one installed as a Windows statup service application. A suitable one is available on <a href="http://www.mi4.biz" target="_blank">www.mi4.biz</a> under the xAPFramework download section ... called HubService.  If you do choose to use the MP plugin's inbuilt hub feature it must be the first xAP application launched and remain running all the time you continue to use xAP.  If you are finding that xAP applications appear 'deaf' ie they can't hear other xAP messages then it's a sure sign that a xAP hub is not running.</blockquote>

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