isyrocks! Posted December 8, 2013 Posted December 8, 2013 I use the Blue Iris software for IP Camera Video Surveillance. Blue Iris has different profiles. I would like to change the profiles based on whether or not anyone is home. They have a some commands that I will use to build a script to change the Blue Iris profile via a script.(http://www.cam-it.org/index.php?topic=2687.msg10929#msg10929) I would like to figure out how I can execute the script on the Windows box via the ISY. Any suggestions? I do have the networking module.
Michel Kohanim Posted December 8, 2013 Posted December 8, 2013 Hi isyrocks!, Are there any network end points on your computer? If not, it would be very difficult to have ISY call your computer. With kind regards, Michel
ISYhbsh01 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I would like to figure out how I can execute the script on the Windows box via the ISY. Any suggestions? I do have the networking module. Eventghost perhaps? Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
isyrocks! Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 Interesting idea. I could certainly go the Eventghost route if I want to add and IR module to my machine. I already have an Insteon IR blaster nearby my computer. I stumbled across this. I think I might give this a try first. http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/2 ... -computer/
ISYhbsh01 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 I don't really have any experience myself with Eventghost. But from what I have read I believe you can control eventghost via network resources commands so u don't need to use an IR blaster to get the ISY & Eventghost to communicate. Do a search on the forum for eventghost & you will come up with a couple of posts on this. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk
isyrocks! Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 Fantastic. Let me take a look. Great suggestion.
isyrocks! Posted December 9, 2013 Author Posted December 9, 2013 Cool someone has written an eventghost plugin for the ISY. I will try this route: https://www.forum.universal-devices.com ... 4&start=30
ISYhbsh01 Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 Integrating my ISY with Eventghost has been on my to-do list for quit some time but have never gotten around to work on it other than installing Eventghost on my computer. I would love to hear from you once you get it up & running how it's working out for you. Thanks.
kevkmartin Posted December 9, 2013 Posted December 9, 2013 The easiest way would be to run Apache (web server) on the PC. Then you could just cause things to happen via making a call to a url on the PC. I do this using a laptop running UBUNTU. Depending on the URL I ask for, I can do anything from make a voice announcement throughout the house, to display a graph of temp and thermostat data. This, in conjunction with the ISY REST interface and Network resources is extremely powerful. It will be even more so if / when Michael adds variables to network resources, and feedback.
isyrocks! Posted December 10, 2013 Author Posted December 10, 2013 I was originally going to go the Apache way. However, my web programming is pretty limited and I didn't know how to call batch files via web pages. The Eventghost way is working perfectly! I just got it setup and running last night. I am very happy with it. The isyplugin that someone wrote works great.
sea3pea0 Posted March 8, 2014 Posted March 8, 2014 I used the ISY plugin quite a while ago but ended up removing it, I forget why. But now I just use the web server plugin on eventghost and I generate events by calling on the eventghost webserver from ISY network resources. If I need eventghost to communicate to the ISY I use eventghost to run cURL and send commands to the REST interface on the ISY. Anyway, I'm a big fan of eventghost, it really ends up filling any gaps in automation that seem to come up from time to time.
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