ReplayTV, A/V System, and UPB Plug-In

[Jim Doolittle]

I just finished switching out a UPB slave switch with a US11-30. I have the US11-30 activate another link rather than the UPB master load. The link turns all lights off in the basement rather than the original ceiling light only.

As an added bonus, I created a HS event that triggers when that link activates. The actions for the event include turning off all A/V equipment using IR commands (I have an Ocelot and Secu16IR) as well as turning off the ReplayTV via HTTP.

I could have sent the ReplayTV an IR command to turn off but do not have an emitter for it. I opted for use HTTP commands because the ReplayTV supported it and it is just as fast as IR being sent remotely (which is already fast).

For anyone with a ReplayTV, here is a VB.NET script to turn it off:

Sub Main(parms As Object)
    Dim ReplayTV_IP As String = "192.168.2.48"
    Dim httpRequest As System.Net.HttpWebRequest 
    Try
        httpRequest = CType(System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(“http://" & ReplayTV_IP & "/httputilssendciomessagecioc=201”), System.Net.HttpWebRequest)
        httpRequest.Timeout = 10000
        httpRequest.GetResponse()
    Catch ex As Exception
        hs.WriteLog("*** ERROR ***", ex.Message)
    End Try
End Sub