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**Jim Doolittle** · June 19, 2003, 09:26 PM

Steve,

I could provide the source to you from my DooNetwork plugin if you think it would make your network plugin better. I have no time to contribute other than what I have already written(which I have been running myself with no changes for many months). Email me if you are interested.

Jim Doolittle

**Dan-O** · June 21, 2003, 05:51 PM

Where is the ReadMe file? I don't see how to configure the plug-in. I see the settings option on the top menu, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Thanks.

Dan-O

**shill** · June 21, 2003, 07:23 PM

That was a bit short-sighted of me

The basic premise (in this version) is that you already have device setup that represent the computers (or other networked equipment) that you want to monitor. On the devices tab, select those devices from the list on the left and click the ">" to move them over to the list of "monitored" devices.

Then you can double click on a device (I expected you to simply read me mind, apparently! Sorry..) and tell it what drives to monitor and what device codes to use (it will create them for you if they don't already exist), as well as threshholds for each device for triggering any "low disk space" events you might have created.

On an event definition, there are triggers for "device online", "device offline", "low disk space" and "no longer low disk space" (they only fire when it changes).

There is an action tab that lets you say what to do (ping or check disk space) so you can setup a recurring event to ping and another event to check disk space.

There are also conditions you can attach to other events for "online", "offline", "low disk space", and "ok disk space".

Hope that clarifies the incredibly vague and non-intuitive nature of the plugin setup. I guess I started doing it just for myself and when I decided to clean up the rough edges I didn't think about instructions!

**Jerry Coleman** · June 21, 2003, 07:57 PM

Worked first try... Good job.

How hard would it be to add monitoring when strange MAC addresses were detected? This would be useful for detecting WarDrivers. HS could give a warning on the house speakers and shutoff the power to the access point. "It would also let you know when to walk out on the porch with your shot gun... "

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**Jebus** · June 21, 2003, 08:32 PM

Jerry,
I do this already with my wireless access point and VBS. HomeSeer speaks "WireLess Alert!". It also lets me know that a puter has dropped off of the wireless. Most wireless access points have a "page" for Active Mac Address's. Easy to script into with hs.geturl....JG

[This message was edited by Jebus on Sat, 21 June 2003 at 11:42 PM.]

**Jerry Coleman** · June 21, 2003, 09:05 PM

Jebus,

Would you be willing to share your script? I'm not much of a programmer, but I'm okay if I have something to reference with...

Thanks,
Jerry

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**Jebus** · June 21, 2003, 09:30 PM

Itz for a Network Everywhere Wireless Access Point. You just have to bring up your page in a browser and note the url. Then just put it in the script where itz bold. You will see where I hold the active mac address's in hspi_doonetwork.ini for reference. I have an event that runs the script every 5 min.

Then if for whatever reason I get an alert, I use the ClearAlert.txt in another event to manually reset the alert.

Please note the spaces in hs.geturl string to keep those nasty emoticon gremlins from showing their ugly heads!.......JG

'####Begin MacAlert.txt#######

sub main()
Dim Alog, LastT, ThisT
Alog = hs.GetURL("username : password @ ipaddress","/wacttab.htm",true,Port#)
Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(9), "",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(10),"",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(13), "",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, "Wireless Active MAC Table", "",1,-1,1)
Alog = LTrim (Alog)
Alog = RTrim (Alog)

LastT = hs.getinisetting("WireLess","Table","","hspi_doonetwork.ini" )
ThisT = hs.getinisetting("WireLess1","Now","","hspi_doonetwork.ini")
If ThisT = LastT then
'hs.speak "ok"
hs.setdevicestatus "w30", 3
hs.setdevicestring "w30", "<img src='online.gif'>" & " OK"

else
hs.setdevicestatus "w30", 2
hs.setdevicestring "w30", "<img src='offline.gif'>" & " Alert" & now
hs.writelog "Wireless Alert!", Alog
hs.speak "wireless network alert!"
end if

if hs.isoff ("w30") then
hs.SaveINISetting "WireLess","Table", Alog,"hspi_doonetwork.ini"
else
end if
end sub

'####End MacAlert.txt#######

'####Begin ClearAlert.txt#######

sub main()
Dim Alog
Alog = hs.GetURL("username : password @ ipaddress","/wacttab.htm",true,Port#)

Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(9), "",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(10),"",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, chr(13), "",1,-1,1)
Alog = Replace (Alog, "Wireless Active MAC Table", "",1,-1,1)
Alog = LTrim (Alog)
Alog = RTrim (Alog)

hs.setdevicestatus "w30", 3
hs.setdevicestring "w30","OK"

hs.SaveINISetting "WireLess1","Now",Alog,"hspi_doonetwork.ini"
hs.SaveINISetting "WireLess","Table",Alog,"hspi_doonetwork.ini"

end sub

'####End ClearAlert.txt#######

**Jerry Coleman** · June 21, 2003, 10:23 PM

Thanks Jebus, I can't wait to get this working...

Steve... Could you add in the network monitor plug-in a place where we could add our WAP?

Maybe their could be a drop down box that would let you choose the type of WAP you had. "Example... Linksys.WAP, COMPAQ.WAP, 3COM.WAP, CISCO.WAP??? Once someone had a network monitor WAP script wrote, they could post it for others with the same WAP. The html should be pretty stable from not changing as long as the WAP was the same model.

After this was all put together, one could add an event that once an invalid MAC was sensed on the network, hs could handle it anyway the user wanted it to.

Jerry

When you become reluctant to change, thank about the beauty of autumn.

[This message was edited by Jerry Coleman on Sun, 22 June 2003 at 01:34 AM.]
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**Jebus** · June 21, 2003, 10:48 PM

Jerry,
Please note that the page will be in a different format with another WAP. You will have to change the strings for the replace functions. You page may have more or less extra text in it. In my case it is a very simple page to parse out the text I wanted after hs.geturl stripped out the html. The trim functions are to strip out all the blank spaces. Otherwise the ini file gets pretty messy..JG

**Dan-O** · June 22, 2003, 05:13 AM

I'm going over to the Server to play around with your Plug-in. Thanks for the info!

Feature requests?
I let the router assign IPs to all except my HS server. Any way to have HS look for machine names instead of IP's? (besides the obvious answer to lock in my IPs)
Thanks.

Dan-O

**shill** · June 22, 2003, 06:35 AM

If you don't provide an IP address, it will look by name.

**Dan-O** · June 22, 2003, 07:17 AM

OK, Cool. Thanks for pointing it out.

How often does the plug in check devices? I have had my server running for about 10 minutes now and none of the devices have updated.

Next question...
Do all the devices have to be the default 'computer' device type? Reason I ask is that I have created several device, one for the router, each computer and the Audreys, but I have labeled them as different device types. For instance, the router is a Router device type, the Audreys are TouchScreen device types. Am I doing something wrong?

Sorry for asking so many questions, but I do thank you for your help.

Dan-O

**tyke** · June 22, 2003, 07:50 AM

Dan-o

Looks like you have to create an event. The Plug-in created a new tab on the event setup screen.

Tyke

**shill** · June 22, 2003, 11:36 AM

Tyke's right - I set it up as an action so you'd have all the controls and options that HomeSeer gives you to manage the event. I have mine ping all devices every 15 minutes and check disk space once an hour.

The plugin doesn't care about the "device type"; it expects you to tell it which specific devices to monitor.

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