Handige html Plugwise op je pda/smart phone/mobiel

Post by **Reinder** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:24 pm

In de bijlage vinden jullie een handige html gebaseerd op de webserver functionaliteit van de Plugwise software, de Source.

Het is een heel simpele html die prima draait op smarphones. Mijn collega had hem in een uurtje in elkaar gedraait, en ik wilde hem graag met jullie delen. Ik hoop dat dit een aanzet geeft tot nieuwe dergelijke simpele handige oplossingen.

Het werkt heel simpel. Plaats de html in de www directorie van de Source. Configureer in de Source groepen die beginnen met "_RC". De html zal deze groepen heel simpel weergeven en kunnen schakelen.

Succes. Ik hoop echt dat men hier eigen handigheidjes aan toe voegd en weer deelt met elkaar.

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Post by **Bwired** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:09 am

Thanks Reinder
I will install it!
BTW: please this forum is English.

Post by **highseas@hetnet.nl** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:22 pm

Thanks Reinder! It started my curiosity to find out what's possible and not.

Don't know if it's appropriate to take a sideturn on the conversation here or maybe I should do that in a seperate post, but since I'm new to this server thing I guess it's ok to take a small sidestep

After RTFM, that is the resource template, which I normally only do when I get stuck

I made a very basic testpage to see what data I can poll (testpage is attached). I'm not so familiar with the javascript syntax (only goodold VB) but I guess I made it so far.
Some interesting things show up that have me puzzled a bit, because there's not a lot of info from Plugwise.

1. The Enviromental data does not really seem to serve a purpose other than gathering information (for whom?) but I can't find info on what data represents what, apart from the obvious.

2. There is one more Module then the number of Appliances (Circles). This must be the Stick logically. Type=0 whereas the Circle+ has Type 1 and all other Circles are Type 2.

3. Module ID and Appliance ID are not the same. Don't see why they must be different even if there is one more Module than there are Appliances. Makes it harder to find the right one (extra code) as I understand that the Modules work Realtime and the Appliances based on Last known info.

Anyway, this was just a lookaround exercise from me

Will try to make someting I can add to the Startup-folder of Windows, just to switch the things that I always need when I start up my computer. Was hoping to address that directly with code instead of calling a HTML-page, but working on that. Maybe this is also a good time to get myself into Java so I can migrate it later to my NAS

Problem so far is that the Source server only works if the PlugwiseSource program is running (and that is a slow starter). This PlugwiseServer is much quicker on start up, but doesn't do anything it seems.

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Post by **Bwired** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:19 pm

PlugwiseServer.exe is only the webserver version, you can poll this webserver and get the same information as with the source, the source has also a GUI for graphs and direct info.
It's also very lean and mean regarding taking resources from your computer (less memory etc).
So your code should work on this PlugwiseServer.exe
Lot of your other questions are answered in other topics of the Plugwise forum.

Post by **Bwired** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:34 pm

btw: your test.html is running but needs some optimizing! it's taking a lot of time to complete, more then 1 minute with 30 plugwise circles

Post by **highseas@hetnet.nl** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:09 pm

Yeah, it's only a tryout actually, just to see what it does. Got the plugs for about a week now. Besides I'm pretty new to the scripting language, so still figuring out a lot esp. syntaxwise it's a bit different from VB.

30 circles is quite something

It says in the Template info that All returned information on the Modules is real time, so using the Module object can cause page delays, since execution of the template is halted until the requested information is received from the module, so this might explain the slowdown!
Already noticed in the Source program that especially the Circle+ takes much longer to update than the other circles.

Will go through all the other post too but sometimes it's very tempting to just do something before reading everything

so excuses if I have been asking known-to-everybody-but-me questions! Catching up reading as we speak

Post by **highseas@hetnet.nl** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:26 pm

You're right about PlugwiseServer.exe!
I was just too impatient. It has to be running for some time before the page is processed at all, otherwise it says page not found.

But even then, page processing is much slower than with PlugwisePC.exe!

Post by **Bwired** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:20 pm

You could be right, I run the source because it's easy to see the GUI once in a while:-)

Post by **Digit** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:22 am

I've got the Source running 24/7 also, never had any problems. Although shutting down can take a while after it (the Source) has been running for multiple weeks.

Post by **Rene** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:36 am

I also never experienced a problem while running the source 24/7. However, the webserver software is a bit buggy. Often the status of the webserver is displayed as stopped while it is actualy running.

Rene.