I've spent more of the past week than I care to admit working on moving my HomeSeer setup from version 1.7 on XP to the latest on a HomeTroller Zee. I have volumes of scripts written in BASIC which will need to be converted to C #, but I can do that at a later date. My goal for right now is merely to get HomeSeer running on the Zee in a basic configuration. There are, however, a couple of problems standing in my way, the second of which is a deal breaker that keeps the old version active.
1. (The lesser problem) The first time the wife heard the garbled, 1991-ish TTS voice from the HomeTroller Zee, the WAF went way, way down. I see HomeSeer offers other voices for sale, but it looks like they come with a Windows installer--no good for the Linux Zee. I know the voice can be changed, but how exactly?
2. (The deal-breaker) After recreating 75+ devices on the Zee, I discovered that the dimmable ones bugger up the works. When I dim, say, Lamp 2 (X10 housecode P2), or set it to anything between 0% and 100%, other devices get their values randomly changed as well. For example, Lamps 1 and 3 (P1 and P3) will now show 5%. Worse, non-dimmable devices will also get their values reset, for example Amplifier (P11), which winds up with a value of "DIM 10". Since this (and several other devices) is not a dimmable device and has no graphic associated with the range 1-99, this means the graphics for several devices vanish from the interface everytime a lamp is dimmed or brightened. Also, it messes up the status of these other devices--effectively rendering events and scripts, and thus HomeSeer itself, useless for our needs.
It's important to note two things in regard to this dimming problem:
-- It occurs regardless of whether the dimming is being done with a remote or with the inteface, and;
-- The accidentally changed light levels on the other devices are NOT actually actioned by HomeSeer. Dimming Lamp 2 will affect the APPARENT value of Lamp 4, for example, but will not actually control the physical lamp.
I've found many other issues in regard to the transition to the Zee, but I think I can gnaw at those on my own. (Not playing some .wav files, for example. Hint: take any spaces out of the file names.) These two problems above, though, are preventing me from powering down the old Pentium 4 and letting the Zee take over.
Any ideas, anyone? I'd really like to make this work.
1. (The lesser problem) The first time the wife heard the garbled, 1991-ish TTS voice from the HomeTroller Zee, the WAF went way, way down. I see HomeSeer offers other voices for sale, but it looks like they come with a Windows installer--no good for the Linux Zee. I know the voice can be changed, but how exactly?
2. (The deal-breaker) After recreating 75+ devices on the Zee, I discovered that the dimmable ones bugger up the works. When I dim, say, Lamp 2 (X10 housecode P2), or set it to anything between 0% and 100%, other devices get their values randomly changed as well. For example, Lamps 1 and 3 (P1 and P3) will now show 5%. Worse, non-dimmable devices will also get their values reset, for example Amplifier (P11), which winds up with a value of "DIM 10". Since this (and several other devices) is not a dimmable device and has no graphic associated with the range 1-99, this means the graphics for several devices vanish from the interface everytime a lamp is dimmed or brightened. Also, it messes up the status of these other devices--effectively rendering events and scripts, and thus HomeSeer itself, useless for our needs.
It's important to note two things in regard to this dimming problem:
-- It occurs regardless of whether the dimming is being done with a remote or with the inteface, and;
-- The accidentally changed light levels on the other devices are NOT actually actioned by HomeSeer. Dimming Lamp 2 will affect the APPARENT value of Lamp 4, for example, but will not actually control the physical lamp.
I've found many other issues in regard to the transition to the Zee, but I think I can gnaw at those on my own. (Not playing some .wav files, for example. Hint: take any spaces out of the file names.) These two problems above, though, are preventing me from powering down the old Pentium 4 and letting the Zee take over.
Any ideas, anyone? I'd really like to make this work.
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