right now i have an insteon keypadlinc in my living room. i also have a globalcache device and of course homeseer. i would like to set it up so that when i press a button on the keypadlinc, it dims the lights, turns on my av receiver and starts playing a specific playlist in media center.
now i know that I could just set up an event in homeseer to send out ir commands to the media center box via the globalcache. but that seems kinda unreliable. i can rely on it to turn on the av receiver. but in media center, sometimes it takes a few extra seconds (god knows why) to fire up the music library. so it might be hard to time the ir signals being sent.
also when you go into the music library it takes you to the last place you were, so its hard to know exactly how many keypresses it will take to get back to playlists and then choose the correct playlist.
so i was wondering if there was a better more reliable way to control my media center from homeseer. like some way to send actually keyboard keypresses or key combinations.
any ideas on how i can accomplish what i am looking to do?
now i know that I could just set up an event in homeseer to send out ir commands to the media center box via the globalcache. but that seems kinda unreliable. i can rely on it to turn on the av receiver. but in media center, sometimes it takes a few extra seconds (god knows why) to fire up the music library. so it might be hard to time the ir signals being sent.
also when you go into the music library it takes you to the last place you were, so its hard to know exactly how many keypresses it will take to get back to playlists and then choose the correct playlist.
so i was wondering if there was a better more reliable way to control my media center from homeseer. like some way to send actually keyboard keypresses or key combinations.
any ideas on how i can accomplish what i am looking to do?
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