Home Automation through Instant Messaging?

[marteken]

Hello, does somebudy know if there's any software which can act as a gateway for msn messenger (or others) so that I could send a message to my house over the internet and the computer would execute a file depending on the message I sent?

I know homeseer has something but I dont use hs so I was wondering if there's a generic software for that...

I would love to do the same thing via SMS using my mobile phone..

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Dean Roddey]

CQC has an SMS driver, but doesn't support MSN or anything like that. And there's a POP3 driver so you can use e-mails as well.

 

[damage]

http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=5841

 

[Tombo]

Hello, does somebudy know if there's any software which can act as a gateway for msn messenger (or others) so that I could send a message to my house over the internet and the computer would execute a file depending on the message I sent?

I know homeseer has something but I dont use hs so I was wondering if there's a generic software for that...

I would love to do the same thing via SMS using my mobile phone..

Any ideas?

Thanks

What kind of stuff do you want to do. I use mine to get status or send voice commands to my kids. I rolled my own and it sends commands to my elk (alarm or voice commands) and to the controlthink sdk for lights. I really am not that happy with it because Messenger is complicated and is made for many things like voice and file transfer which are beyond simple messaging. I am looking at google talk to see if it simplifies things. I want it to switch to my cellphone text messaging when i am not logged in. It does get annoying now since it tells me when the phone is ringing , or the doorbell is pressed etc.

 

[marteken]

Thanks for your replys.
I'm using Superna for my home control. I also have have created (with help from SUperna guys) *.exe files which contain any action for any device Superna has built in. So basically what I want to do is to find 3rd party softwares which can launch an exe file given a certain command.

For example, I already did that using an IVR software, so whe I call to my house there's an answering machine and I have all the options I want to control over the phone. Basically when I press a number (an option) the IVR software calls the exe file asociated with that option.

Based on that then I created another solution with Salling Clicker. This is more an in-house in-range (bluetooth) solution. But stills, I have a screen on my cell phone with all my options (Lighting, IR commands, etc) to control my home through my mobie phone.

So, now I have two more things I would like to do. One is to find a SMS gateway which can do the same thing, launch an exe file. And the other thing I thought it would be cool is to use an instant message system, like msn, yahoo, etc.

I hope you have a better idea of what I want. If you have some ideas it would be great.

Thanks again.

Martin
www.aiQiuhome.com

 

[Rupp]

HomeSeer has the MSNMessenger plugin, an SMS plugin, and the Message Server which is a client server app.

*** Whoops I didn't read close enough. Sorry.

 

[ver0776]

http://www.accessha.com/forums/x10dispatch...atch-forum.html

A little project built around IM for HA...


Vaughn

 

[marteken]

Thank you Vaughn, that little program did just what I wanted using MSN Messenger.
Thank you all for your help.

Martin