My discontinued ADI Adicon2500 relay module is dying. I use the relays to switch speakers for voice announcements by HS. I have ordered an MGL Relay8 unit to replace it. I see that your plugin supports the old X10 RainRelay8. Since the Relay8 is controlled by serial port rather than X10, can the BLSpeech plugin handle other on-off devices defined in HS3?
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There is a Relay8 plugin already but I haven't got the module yet. I'll know more in a few days.
Check out this link and comments from Tink; specifically post #35: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread...10#post1107210
It sounds like it would be easy for another plugin to control devices once the devices are set up.
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I just got a Relay8 and my HS2 speech proxy, SpeakEasy actually lets me select HS devices to control. In this case, my device ID is %1 - %8. This plugin is not getting converted to HS3 anytime soon.
I'd love to see your BLSpeech plugin modified to control HomeSeer devices, whether by CAPI or through associated device plugins. If you're able to do that, I think a number of people may discard SpeakEasy and use your plugin for HS3.
Let me know what you think. This could add another dimension of things that could be switched on during speaking. The Relay8 can be daisy-chained for control of up to 255 devices.
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I loaded BLSpeech today and experimented. While setting the relays as X10, that didn't work. Set to Other, the plugin wanted a relay number and device code.
BLSpeech works almost exactly like SpeakEasy except SpeakEasy doesn't work in HS3 and has a variety of of devices its supports including HS devices.
I'd like to see an option for adding the speakers/zones where you can enter the Device ID (in my case, the Relay8 relays were assigned IO1 thru IO8). Perhaps just add a category of "HS Device" as an option in the drop down.
Then just use your same logic to turn the devices on an off. You could probably back-port that to HS2 if you wanted. In any case, by controlling any HS On/Off device by the device code, it would expand the flexibility of the plugin's control and perhaps also expand your customer base. Let me know what you think.
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