Enable ASP in HS WebServer

[Ozy]

Can the HS webserver process ASP? It doesnt seem to. I then installed IIS onto the XP box to see if it just needed the engine installed, but it still doesnt work. How does one get HS to both process HS commands and do ASP at the same time? It seems that all the pages in the HS website are virtualized with simple header/footers. I'd also like to know how i could do a POST with forms or a GET with query strings to have it execute and return as if it was a local running script. This is so i can tie together my Asterisk PBX system with my HomeSeer box instead of using the limited HS Phone system.

I'm sure i'm overlooking something..

[smee]

The HS webserver supports at least a subset of ASP. Just about all of my interface is ASP pages that I've written. I don't use the HS-provided pages but I do use the HS server. I don't know what might be missing since I've never written ASP for anything else.

If you can post some examples, there are plenty of people around here who should be able to help.

[Ozy]

Test.asp has:

<%
response.write "hello"
html here
 
 
%>
response.write "hello"
html here

<%
response.write "hello"
html here
 
 


%> 

but when loaded via browser it says:


Script error:

html here

Something's not right here... Obviously i put the asp tags, but i can't paste it into this post.

[Rupp]

Ozy,
You need to use php tags to wrap asp code. I modified the post but make sure that's what you meant to post.

[Ozy]

Ozy,
You need to use php tags to wrap asp code. I modified the post but make sure that's what you meant to post.

for bb? ok, well i use the % in the code and it errors.

[Rupp]

Ozy,
I was talking about this BB. It requires PHP tags to display any "active" code.

[Rupp]

Ozy,
If your original post is portraing what you desired then I can explain what the problem is.

All asp code must be wrapped in the asp tags < % and %> The HTML goes out side the asp tags. One of the parcularities of the HS web server is it will not allow code in two sets of asp tags to "talk" to one another. IIS has no problems with code like the following but HS will not work with this:

<%if r = 2 then%>
<img src="g.gif">
<%end if%>

in the HS web server it has to be like:
<%
 if r=2 then
response.write "<img src=""g.gif"">"
end if
%> 

[Ozy]

Ozy,
If your original post is portraing what you desired then I can explain what the problem is.

All asp code must be wrapped in the asp tags < % and %> The HTML goes out side the asp tags. One of the parcularities of the HS web server is it will not allow code in two sets of asp tags to "talk" to one another. IIS has no problems with code like the following but HS will not work with this:

 
[img]http://board.homeseer.com/g.gif[/img]
 
 
in the HS web server it has to be like: 

Ok ya moving the html outside the tag worked, so are you saying that variables are localized between ASP tags? Wow, that is frustrating... that means the homeseer help file under "Controlling Homeseer using ASP" has a bad code sample. That is where i pulled this example i pasted. It has the html inside the tag.

[Rupp]

Ok ya moving the html outside the tag worked, so are you saying that variables are localized between ASP tags? Wow, that is frustrating...

No the variables are not localized between tags. They are available anywhere on the page.

[Ozy]

No the variables are not localized between tags. They are available anywhere on the page.

ok cool, so just if / then , for / next, do / while, etc are localized then huh?

Also, whats the diff between response.send and response.write.

Thx

[johnwpb]

Asp tags

The HS Board is very funny, sometimes the code tag is best, sometimes the PHP wrap is best. It can get frustrating.

As for the "localized" asp code, it can be very frustrating. You can create a variable anywhere and recall it anywhere with no problem. But you cant start a For Next statement, close the tag, write some html and then reopen the tag for Next.

The workaround is to convert the html into asp when you need to do it in a loop.

This would NOT work:

<% for Count = 1 to 10 %>
<BR>
 this is line <% Response.Write Count %>
<% next %> 

This however would work:

<%
for Count = 1 to 10
Response.Write "<br>
 this is line  " &  Count
next
 %> 

I GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!! I have spent 40 minutes trying to get the code on this msg board!!!!!!!! It keeps changing the code no matter what I try! No matter if I use the CODE or PHP wrap tags, you can not show a "Line Break" and the rest of the code is mutilated. I cant beleive the people that wrote this BB software, say there is not a problem with posting codE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a screen cap of what I was TRYING to post. This screen cap contains the EXACT code I was trying to post above.

[Ozy]

Not sure if anyone really cares but i figured i'd post why i'm doing this. I have a very functional PBX ( http://www.asterisk.org ) at my house for my LLC ( http://www.carandmodel.com ). It handles two inbound landlines and a VOIP inbound / outbound line thru voicepulse. Since this setup is so powerful, i knew i'd never utilize the HS Phone system. I wanted to make it so i could call my pbx and have logic on it query against the HS server for actions & status. I wrote this ASP file and put it on the HS server.

dim stat, ip, device, dev_count, hc, dc, command, temp, dimval
hc = Request.QueryString("hc")
dc = Request.QueryString("dc")
command = Request.QueryString("command")
dimval = Request.QueryString("dimval")
dev_count = hs.devicecount
for i = 1 to dev_count
 set device = hs.getdevice(i)
 if device.hc = hc and device.dc = dc then
  select case command
   case "status"
   stat = hs.devicestatus(hc+dc)
   select case stat
    case 2
     temp = "On"
    case 3
     temp = "Off"
    case 4
     temp = "Dimmed"
   end select
   response.write "The "+device.location+" "+device.name+" is "+temp
   case "on"
    hs.execX10 hc+dc, "on", 0,0
    response.write "I have turned on the "+device.location+" "+device.name+"."
   case "off"
    hs.execX10 hc+dc, "off", 0,0
    response.write "I have turned off the "+device.location+" "+device.name+"."
   case "ddim"
    hs.execX10 hc+dc, "ddim", dimval
    response.write "I have dimmed the "+device.location+" "+device.name+" to "+cstr(dimval)+"%."
  end select  
 end if
next 

[Ozy]

This allows me to simply send gets to the server over my internal network via an url such as http://10.10.10.15/doit.asp?hc=P&dc=1&command=status . I will have the server reply with text that I wanted repeated to me on the phone.

On my pbx, i can easily create menu logic, and for text to speech, i use a unix util called "text2wave". I then put together a perl script (my strength is in perl / php) that my pbx calls when i pick various trigger menus

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Asterisk::AGI;
use File::Basename;
require Data::UUID;
$AGI = new Asterisk::AGI;
my $ug = new Data::UUID;
my $timestamp = gmtime;
my %input = $AGI->ReadParse();
my ($command)=@ARGV;
my $text=`lynx -dump 'http://10.10.10.15/doit.asp?$command'`;
my $hash = $ug->create_str;
my $sounddir = "/var/lib/asterisk/sounds/tts";
my $wavefile = "$sounddir/"."tts-$hash.wav";
my $t2wp= "/usr/bin/";
unless (-f $wavefile) {
        open(fileOUT, ">$sounddir"."/say-text-$hash.txt");
        print fileOUT "$text";
        close(fileOUT);
        my $execf=$t2wp."text2wave $sounddir/say-text-$hash.txt -F 8000 -o $wavefile";
        system($execf);
        unlink($sounddir."/say-text-$hash.txt");
}
$AGI->stream_file('tts/'.basename($wavefile,".wav")); 

I'll attach a wav file shortly so everyone can here how it sounds.

[Ozy]

A clip from my Asterisk extension file:

[custom-homeseer]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,AGI(festival-script.pl|Please wait while I contact the homeseer server.)
exten => s,3,AGI(homeseer.pl|hc=P&dc=1&command=status)
exten => s,4,Hangup 

To test quality i had it say:

Hallway Kicklights. Entry Entry Way. Outside Entry Door. Outside
Courtyard. Hallway South Hallway. Hallway North Hallway. Garage Garage
Lights. Entry Foyer Recessed Lights. Kitchen Recessed Lights. Kitchen
Breakfast Light. Kitchen Motion Sensor. Hallway Bathroom Motion
Sensor. Hallway South Motion Sensor. Hallway North Motion Sensor.
Hallway Bathroom Recessed Lights. Garage Motion Sensor. DooMotion
Plugin Status. DooMotion Plugin Last Motion. DooMotion Plugin House
Occupancy Sensor. Kitchen DD Motion Sensor. Garage DD Motion Sensor.
Hallway Bathroom DD Motion Sensor. Outside Motion Sensor 1. Kitchen
Welcome Chime. Kitchen Alert Chime. Family Room Right Fan Light.
Family Room Left Fan Light. Media Player Status. Media Player Title.
Media Player Album. Media Player Artist. Media Player Genre. Media
Player Length. Media Player Loop Mode. Media Player Shuffle Mode.
Media Player Mute. Media Player Display Controls. Media Player Quick
Genre. Media Player Quick Artist. Media Player Quick PlayList. Media
Player Quick Album. Garage Right Door. Outside Front Gate. Garage Left
Door. Garage Left Door Trigger. Garage Right Door Trigger. Family Room
Recessed Lights. Outside Front Camera. SmartHome IRLinc 1623 IRLinc
Probe Status. Garage Garage Status. Master Bathroom Recessed Lights.
Master Bathroom Chris's Sink. Master Bathroom Motion Sensor. Master
Bathroom DD Motion Sensor. Outside Side Gate. Outside Courtyard
Status.

I attached the wav's in a zip file.

http://www.f20c.com/stuff/homeseer-asterisktest.zip