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I can not answer the random question, but I am doing something similar for 
the motion detectors. 

I have a bunch of lights on various house and unit codes. All of my motion 
detectors are on house code M. 

When motion is detected on M2 (laundry) then the laundry light is turned on 
and a 5 minute timer started. If it is after 8pm then the $kit_hall light is 
also turned on. If motion is detected while the timer is still counting then 
the timer is reset for an additional 5 minutes. When the timer expires then 
the lights are set off.

There are a couple of other examples of this in the attached files for Master 
Bedroom and Guest Area. 

I am sure that I stole this code from someone else. I think it was originally 
based on klier.pl but I made a few changes.

The only drawback to doing it this was is that there is about a 3 second 
delay from the time that the hawkeye sees motion and the lights come on. 
There have been many discussions here about why the delay, but no way around 
it if you use hawkeyes that I have seen.

I suspect that the 3 second delay for outside lights should really not pose 
any problems. I have all of mine inside and have gotten used to the delay, 
but if you have others in your household it may bug them to use it for 
interior lights.

I attached two files:

   items.pl is my main light file
   motion.pl sets up the motion control stuff

I also have an IR.pl file that I use in conjunction with the IR - X10 
convertor box. This allows me to use one house code "I" for the convertor 
box, but control lights on any housecode. Unfortunately there is a slight 
delay in response with this as well while mh figures out that I2 greally 
means G2 and acts accordingly. If anyone is interested let me know and I will 
post this file as well.


Cullen Simpson


Brian Rigsby <br...@ts...> said:

> I am feeling a bit lazy today, so I was wondering if anyone has written code
> to address the following need for an outside motion sensor.
> I have a series of motion sensors around the perimeter of my house that
> alert me when movement is detected.  These motion sensors also turn the
> various outside lights on/off.  In order to detect motion at all times (not
> just at dark), I had to turn off the day/night sensor on these Hawkeye
> units, thus losing flexibility to directly control my light states even when
> it\'s dark.  However, I know MH can come to my rescue!
> I would like to move these motion sensors from direct control of the lights
> and allow MH to control them.  As an example, my front porch light is \"O2\"
> and I have a motion sensor \"M2\" that I want to control this light.  Here 
is
> the need:
> ***If 15 minutes before sunset, turn \"O2\" on
> ***On a random time between 11:15 pm and 11:45 pm turn \"O2\" off
> Question:  What is the proper \"time_random()\" syntax for the above?
> 
> Now, with this light timer in place, I now want to be alerted of motion at
> all times, but only turn the front porch light on if it\'s after the above
> set timeframe but before sunrise, then turn the light back off after 5
> minutes if no new motion has been detected.  Should I be using the 
Hawkeye\'s
> built in \"turn off after x minutes timer\" or just ignore it and let MH do
> all the work?
> 
> What\'s the best way to do this?  Anyone?  Thanks in advance....
> 
> --Brian R
> 
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I am feeling a bit lazy today, so I was wondering if anyone has written code
to address the following need for an outside motion sensor.
I have a series of motion sensors around the perimeter of my house that
alert me when movement is detected.  These motion sensors also turn the
various outside lights on/off.  In order to detect motion at all times (not
just at dark), I had to turn off the day/night sensor on these Hawkeye
units, thus losing flexibility to directly control my light states even when
it's dark.  However, I know MH can come to my rescue!
I would like to move these motion sensors from direct control of the lights
and allow MH to control them.  As an example, my front porch light is "O2"
and I have a motion sensor "M2" that I want to control this light.  Here is
the need:
***If 15 minutes before sunset, turn "O2" on
***On a random time between 11:15 pm and 11:45 pm turn "O2" off
Question:  What is the proper "time_random()" syntax for the above?

Now, with this light timer in place, I now want to be alerted of motion at
all times, but only turn the front porch light on if it's after the above
set timeframe but before sunrise, then turn the light back off after 5
minutes if no new motion has been detected.  Should I be using the Hawkeye's
built in "turn off after x minutes timer" or just ignore it and let MH do
all the work?

What's the best way to do this?  Anyone?  Thanks in advance....

--Brian R

Hmmm, thats a new one (I think).  Do you have a full-time internet
connection?  If so, we could rig up some code to frequently check the time
difference with an internet clock.  Then we could try disabling all/some of
the code to see if we could narrow in on the trouble maker.

If you have a dial up, we should still be able to do this, using mh to
auto-dial periodically.

One thing to try is to try a bare-bones mh, to see if it is mh or some of
the test/user code that causes the problem.  Try running this for a while:

 mh -code_dir c:\empty

Where c:\empty (or whatever) is an directory that has something like
empty.pl in it (an empty file).   If you are on 2.32, also
point -code_dir_common to that same directory.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
I am running Mister House 2.29 on a AMD 300 MHz with win 98.
While I am running the program my computer loses time, up to a hour per day.
If I turn MH off It only loses about 10 seconds a day.  Is there a fix for
this or am I the only one?

> I would like to start by first saying "Wow!"  Thank you Bruce for opening
> my eyes to the full potential of HA.

Your welcome.  I'm gonna have to collect this atta-boy comments into a list,
so I can brag to my 2 boys about how cool their Dad is :)   I lost their
Dad-is-King respect the moment they started creaming me in computer games,
about when they turned 10 :)

> ID information using Hyperterminal.  When I use the phone_modem.pl
> with the caller ID here it does not pick up anything.  It appears that
> phone_modem.pl is looking for the \NAME\ and my caller ID does not
> return a name.  My format is:
>
> DATE =
> TIME =
> NMBR =
>
> The script sees nothing, even though the raw caller ID data can be seen
> in the mh command window when the phone rings.
>
> When I change \NAME\ to \NMBR\ the phone_modem.pl then "sees"
> the data, but I get this:

Hmmm, I didn't think about the case of no names.  Your fix (changing the
phon_modem.pl test from NAME to NMBR) seems to be the best fix for that.

> RING
> normal: Call from  .  Phone call is from  .
> DATE = 1030 TIME = 2247 NMBR = 4087794366
> callerid data: number=408-779-4366 name= time=1030
> 2247
> The TTS reads "Call from .  Phone call is from ."

I just patched mh/lib/Caller_ID.pm so that it will return the number, if the
name is missing.  I added the following $name eq '' test on line 106:

     elsif ($last eq "Unavailable" or $name eq '') {

If you are using the compile mh, you can pick up the patch here:

 http://misterhouse.net/public/mh.zip

> I have also had no luck with callog.pl  It never
> notices the caller ID data at all even though MH
> reports that Caller ID has been initialized.

This code is a bit older, so you will probably be better off with the
phone_modem.pl code.

Bruce

> When mh rolled over at midnight, I got a message that said
> a  memory leak was detected for 18.84 meg.  Has anyone else
> seen this "leak" at midnight?

Are you using perl 5.6? (perl -v or the start of mh errata will show you
what the version is)

If so, thats the problem.  I have seen it also, on some (but not all) code
reloads.  Not sure about midnight ... maybe there also.   Thats the main
reason I have stuck with the older release.

I know others have been using 5.6 without a problem, so I'm a bit puzzled on
that.  I'll try to run with a simple code file to see if there is one
particluar code member that is at fault.

Bruce

Bruce:

You know how "href=list?$category" creates links using "RUN:last_response".
Is there an easy way to have it use "referrer" instead? I'm trying to make
low-bandwidth pages for viewing on a Palm. (Actually, it would be better if
I could just get the first line of the response.)

--doug <(©¿©)>

On Win98, I ues Dimension4, a free time sync program.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/

http://www.shokk.com
ICQ-17933910  Ernie "Shokk" Oporto


  -----Original Message-----
  From: mis...@li...
[mailto:mis...@li...]On Behalf Of Todd
Daniel
  Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:20 PM
  To: mis...@li...
  Subject: [misterhouse-users] Time


  I am running Mister House 2.29 on a AMD 300 MHz with win 98.
  While I am running the program my computer loses time, up to a hour per
day.  If I turn MH off It only loses about 10 seconds a day.  Is there a fix
for this or am I the only one?

  New User
  Todd D.

I would like to start by first saying "Wow!"  Thank you Bruce for opening 
my eyes to the full potential of HA.  I have MH installed on a NT server 
running perl 5.22.  I just got my Home Director Starter Kit today from 
Smarthome (on sale for $28) with the CM11A.  I installed the TTS, and 
VR modules from the Microsoft SDK.  Both TTS and VR are working.

The question regards Caller ID.  I have a USR external 56k modem that 
initializes with the #CID=1.  I have verified the modem is returning caller 
ID information using Hyperterminal.  When I use the phone_modem.pl 
with the caller ID here it does not pick up anything.  It appears that 
phone_modem.pl is looking for the \NAME\ and my caller ID does not 
return a name.  My format is:

DATE = 
TIME = 
NMBR =

The script sees nothing, even though the raw caller ID data can be seen 
in the mh command window when the phone rings.

When I change \NAME\ to \NMBR\ the phone_modem.pl then "sees" 
the data, but I get this:

RING 
normal: Call from  .  Phone call is from  .
DATE = 1030 TIME = 2247 NMBR = 4087794366
callerid data: number=408-779-4366 name= time=1030 
2247

The TTS reads "Call from .  Phone call is from ." 
The actual caller or number is not read back.  The 
call data is logged correctly to the call logs.

I have also had no luck with callog.pl  It never 
notices the caller ID data at all even though MH 
reports that Caller ID has been initialized.

I thought phone_modem.pl checked the number against 
the phone_caller_id.list and read back the name.  
If no name is matched, why would it not simply read 
the number?

Thanks in advance for any help with this.


Ray Dzek 
--- <Insert Silly Signature Graphics Here> ---

When mh rolled over at midnight, I got a message that said
a  memory leak was detected for 18.84 meg.  Has anyone else
seen this "leak" at midnight?

Bill Bass

>
> > Thanks for the fix suggestion, but unfortunately I'm using the compiled
> > version of mh.  I do not have perl installed.
> >
> > > a fix.  Add the if test to this line (168) in sub serial_match_log  in
> > > mh/code/common/mh_control.pl:
> > >
> > >     print_log "$event: $name $state" if $config_parms{x10_errata} > 1;
>
> That code/common was new with the last mh release.  It is just another
place
> to put normal code files that get read with all your other user code
files.
>

Most excellent!

Thanks,
Bill Bass

> Thanks for the fix suggestion, but unfortunately I'm using the compiled
> version of mh.  I do not have perl installed.
>
> Will this likely be included in the next version of mh?
>
> > a fix.  Add the if test to this line (168) in sub serial_match_log  in
> > mh/code/common/mh_control.pl:
> >
> >     print_log "$event: $name $state" if $config_parms{x10_errata} > 1;

No worries (my Sister lives in Australia).   That fix is an uncompiled code
file, so if you change it, it will go into effect on your next code reload
or restart.

That code/common was new with the last mh release.  It is just another place
to put normal code files that get read with all your other user code files.

Bruce

Bruce,

Thanks for the fix suggestion, but unfortunately I'm using the compiled
version of mh.  I do not have perl installed.

Will this likely be included in the next version of mh?

Thanks,
Bill Bass
Greenville, SC

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Winter" <br...@mi...>
To: <mis...@li...>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 11:26 PM
Subject: RE: [misterhouse-users] x10_errata


> > Since I upgraded to mh 2.32 (from 2.29), my x10_errata=1 setting in
> > mh.private.ini seems to not work correctly.  I have 7 different hawkeye
> > motion sensors in use, so my x10 traffic is pretty high, now I am seeing
a
> > log entry written for every x10 event mh detects.  How can I get these
log
> > entries turned back off.
> >
> > This is a sample of the log entries I am getting:
> >
> >     10/30/00 09:26:34 PM: XIDIJ: pir_motion kitchen
>
> I don't remember what the changes were from 2.29, but I think this might
be
> a fix.  Add the if test to this line (168) in sub serial_match_log  in
> mh/code/common/mh_control.pl:
>
>     print_log "$event: $name $state" if $config_parms{x10_errata} > 1;
>
> Bruce
>
>
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I am running Mister House 2.29 on a AMD 300 MHz with win 98.
While I am running the program my computer loses time, up to a hour per =
day.  If I turn MH off It only loses about 10 seconds a day.  Is there a =
fix for this or am I the only one?

New User=20
Todd D.

> I downloaded activeperl 522/perl 5.005 as I wanted to use
> sendkeys to enable
> mh to turn on myTV card and select the appropriate channel, but I am still
> getting the waitforanywindows error (eg also when trying to use winamp):
>
> Error in user code: Undefined subroutine &main::WaitForAnyWindow called at
> mh line 2651.

Well now, thats a bit odd.  It should work  ...

Do you see this on startup?

 Pgm  version: 2.33      Last updated: Sat Oct 28 17:51:11 2000
 Perl version: 5.00503 Build 522

Do you see any msg like this:

 Error in loading module=Win32::Setupsup

Bruce