Haiku Infrared I/O through Haiku Helper?

[pct88]

I have been using an Ocelot with my OPII for many years and it works OK, although the I/O method is a bit inelegant.  Now that I have Haiku Helper talking to my Omni and resolved the intermittent ethernet port issue I am looking for updates on how people interact with IR controlled devices in conjunction with Haiku Helper.
 
The iTach/GC100 products and HAI Home Theater Extender look interesting, but do not appear to directly communicate with HH without significant programming effort.  
 
I am looking for basic functionality:  
   -Press "Movie" Activity on the Logitech Harmony remote, OPII initiates screen drop, lighting dim, direct IR activates HT, DVD, projector.
   -Press pause on the home theater DVR?  Room lights are brought up to 20%.  
   -Telephone or doorbell rings (detected by UPB/OPII)?  DVR pauses, room lights up to 20%. 
   -Forgot to turn off the Russound zones upstairs before settling to watch a movie?  Button on IR remote tells the OPII to turn them off.
   
   

 

[lupinglade]

I have been using an Ocelot with my OPII for many years and it works OK, although the I/O method is a bit inelegant.  Now that I have Haiku Helper talking to my Omni and resolved the intermittent ethernet port issue I am looking for updates on how people interact with IR controlled devices in conjunction with Haiku Helper.
 
The iTach/GC100 products and HAI Home Theater Extender look interesting, but do not appear to directly communicate with HH without significant programming effort.  

Anything that you can control via HTTP/network should work fine with HaikuHelper. You can create scripts based on events to send whatever HTTP requests needed to the IR hardware. You can react to any event, such as button presses (ie. macros), status changes for units, etc, etc...

I am looking for basic functionality:  
   -Press "Movie" Activity on the Logitech Harmony remote, OPII initiates screen drop, lighting dim, direct IR activates HT, DVD, projector.
   -Press pause on the home theater DVR?  Room lights are brought up to 20%.  
   -Telephone or doorbell rings (detected by UPB/OPII)?  DVR pauses, room lights up to 20%. 
   -Forgot to turn off the Russound zones upstairs before settling to watch a movie?  Button on IR remote tells the OPII to turn them off.

All of these should be possible via scripting from HaikuHelper. You can monitor the phone line using OmniPro II's phone line, you get callbacks in the scripting for these events. I can't give you any exact instructions, as its all very specific to your install and hardware. But HH is designed for this kind of a thing and will let you do some very advanced scripting. Talking to HTTP-based devices is easy. Socket communications and serial are also options.

 

[jmorris644]

I am a great fan if Haiku and Haiku Helper and I am doing some pretty neat things with Haiku Helper. I also use iTach products for my ir needs. But for a very simple UI creation and total control with a remote I recommend you check into iRule. It does require an iOS (maybe Android now) device on a WiFi network. But for all of the simple things like you are talking about it will fit the bill very well. I have integrated iRule and HH to do some of my lighting needs.
 
Joe

 

[hick]

Joe,
 
Like you I'm a great fan of Haiku and HH, and I use IRule and Itech products.
 
Can you please give us a example of how you have intergrated iRule an HH?
 
Are you adding buttons to iRule that can trigger a button in HAI, our just units? 
 
I have looked at the HAI mod from Irule, seems pricey. And I only need a few commands that I would like to add to Irule.
 
 
Thanks in Advanced.
 
Mike

 

[jmorris644]

Joe,
 
Like you I'm a great fan of Haiku and HH, and I use IRule and Itech products.
 
Can you please give us a example of how you have intergrated iRule an HH?
 
Are you adding buttons to iRule that can trigger a button in HAI, our just units? 
 
I have looked at the HAI mod from Irule, seems pricey. And I only need a few commands that I would like to add to Irule.
 
 
Thanks in Advanced.
 
Mike

 
I have just played with units so far. I also have created slider type controls to control the lights. I have attached a pic. The pic is of my control test page. But you can see for the sconces and ceiling cans I have a dynamic level display.
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If the HH API can address buttons then I am sure you could control those. I am just using a web server with callbacks to provide the functionality.