Just a quick note, more of a heads-up than a help request. First of all, thanks for a very useful plug-in. Homeseer, HSGirder and NetRemote have enabled me to end up with a quadraplegic to be able to reliably control all her infrared and X10 devices over a WiFi network from an IPAQ on her wheelchair with very few problems.
One problem that I have found however, is that if you leave the debug mode activated in HSGirder, after a time the plug-in seems to choke up, fail and give out-of-memory errors (noted in the HS log). You have to stop and restart Homeseer to get HSGirder working again and processing, and, in at least one instance, I had to restart the computer to get everything working again (Homeseer itself seemed to lock up). I have not seen similar problems when debug mode is set off in HSGirder.
My next challenge is to figure out how to get an HS/HSGirder script to send infrared commands via the Global Cache plug-in, so that I can automate infrared commands from lua scripts in NetRemote on the IPAQ. I just wish that Homeseer did not charge quite so much for plug-ins, particularly ones like the Global Cache one, that is very buggy and has limited utility except for very specific taks, like that described. In the quadraplegic's case, I started trying to use HS2.xx with the Global Cache plug-in and the HS touchscreen web-page interface from the IPAQ and ran into too many roadblocks to get it working in any usable way. NetRemote Pro+IR cost about the same as the HS GC plug-in and is far more useful and useable for about the same price for 95% of what you want to do. As I said, just comments!! Homeseer itself is bullet-proof and well worth the money (even the 2.xx version, although I will not change the 1.7 version that I use in my own home until I am absolutely forced too - it's perfect - get it working - sometimes with a lot of learning required, especially with some plug-ins - but then forget it is my experience!). I still feel that a 100% web-page interface was not the way to go - that's the main reason wny I prefer 1.7. Just my opinion, and I'm sure that people who know much more than I do would disagree!
One problem that I have found however, is that if you leave the debug mode activated in HSGirder, after a time the plug-in seems to choke up, fail and give out-of-memory errors (noted in the HS log). You have to stop and restart Homeseer to get HSGirder working again and processing, and, in at least one instance, I had to restart the computer to get everything working again (Homeseer itself seemed to lock up). I have not seen similar problems when debug mode is set off in HSGirder.
My next challenge is to figure out how to get an HS/HSGirder script to send infrared commands via the Global Cache plug-in, so that I can automate infrared commands from lua scripts in NetRemote on the IPAQ. I just wish that Homeseer did not charge quite so much for plug-ins, particularly ones like the Global Cache one, that is very buggy and has limited utility except for very specific taks, like that described. In the quadraplegic's case, I started trying to use HS2.xx with the Global Cache plug-in and the HS touchscreen web-page interface from the IPAQ and ran into too many roadblocks to get it working in any usable way. NetRemote Pro+IR cost about the same as the HS GC plug-in and is far more useful and useable for about the same price for 95% of what you want to do. As I said, just comments!! Homeseer itself is bullet-proof and well worth the money (even the 2.xx version, although I will not change the 1.7 version that I use in my own home until I am absolutely forced too - it's perfect - get it working - sometimes with a lot of learning required, especially with some plug-ins - but then forget it is my experience!). I still feel that a 100% web-page interface was not the way to go - that's the main reason wny I prefer 1.7. Just my opinion, and I'm sure that people who know much more than I do would disagree!
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