iOS / ISY Proximity Script

[dpower]

Haven't started yet. Wanted to ensure I wasn't headed down a deep, dark hole before I begin. Cheers!

[Steven M Castano]

Haven't started yet. Wanted to ensure I wasn't headed down a deep, dark hole before I begin. Cheers!

 

You should be good to go! Let me know how it goes!

 

 

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[dpower]

Steven... Everything's gone exceptionally-smoothly on Windows 10... up to the point of running iPhoneLocation.py, at which point it generates the following error:

 

Startup: Your current operating system is windows
Startup: PID=488
Startup: Failed to load logging settings, ABORTING!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "iphonelocation.py", line 75, in <module>
    f_out = open('c:\{}.pid'.format(application_logging_name), 'w', 0)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\iPhoneLocation.pid'

It seems Python has a permissions issue writing to disk. Before I spend too much time unpacking this, do you have any advice?

 

Thanks.

 

[Steven M Castano]

 

Steven... Everything's gone exceptionally-smoothly on Windows 10... up to the point of running iPhoneLocation.py, at which point it generates the following error:

 

Startup: Your current operating system is windows
Startup: PID=488
Startup: Failed to load logging settings, ABORTING!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "iphonelocation.py", line 75, in <module>
    f_out = open('c:\{}.pid'.format(application_logging_name), 'w', 0)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\iPhoneLocation.pid'

It seems Python has a permissions issue writing to disk. Before I spend too much time unpacking this, do you have any advice?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

My guess here is that it doesn't like that you're writing to the root of the C drive... you could try "Run As Administrator".... start an admin command prompt then run the iPhoneLocation.py script. If that doesn't work, I can probably show you a few code changes so it writes the .pid file somewhere else... as well as just commend out the lines and not write one at all.

[dpower]

Steven... Permissions to the C: drive was the issue. I changed the path on line 75 so the .pid file is now being created in a permissioned location. I'll check to see if there are other references and update them accordingly.

 

Happy to report the script is working fine. I was out to the gym this morning and it tracked my trip out and back.

 

Next... onto the ISY program.

 

Thanks for your help.

[dpower]

Proximity app is up and running on two devices right now and I have it triggering programs to flash lights and send a text message when my wife is within striking distance. (NB: Nothing untoward here. Just a warning so I have time to stop doing geeky stuff before she opens the door.)

 

In terms of at-home Bluetooth monitoring, does anyone know of an hcitool equivalent for Windows? It would make sense that someone, somewhere has developed one but I've yet to locate it.

 

Thoughts, anyone?