Now Playing 2007 Girder5 Alpha Testing

[jwilson56]

Good news... I have my light control panel converted over to Girder5 now and the status updates are working fine. I have to re-skin the graphics yet but have been concentrating on getting the functions working first.



John

 

[jwilson56]

I decided to add the ability to select between 5 different backgrounds with a push of hidden buttons on the bottom frame. here is one that harleydude found for me

Add comments if any here:


http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=7444



John

 

[jwilson56]

Yet another background....

been working on the weather and audio control panels today... G5 has some great weather data built into it.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Here are my weather pages. One is the 5 day forecast and the second displays over a dozen different animated radar maps for my area.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Here is my updated Album Browser.

John

 

[jwilson56]

And my updated Search page.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Here is my updated weather page. It uses a Google Gadget embedded into the panel for the moon phases.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Ok the Caller ID is working. When a call comes the following steps are performed:

Tthe Girder CallerID handler looks for the number in the database and substitutes the name for what was chosen and then stores it into a table.

The caller name is announced via Text to Speech.

The CallerID popup box is displayed on all NR clients

The screens on all clients are woke up

The caller information is sent out to all the YAC listeners (PC and MCE).

Any active audio zones are muted.

All audio tracks playing within JRMC are paused.

A timer is set to hide the CallerID box in 60 seconds

John

 

[jwilson56]

Well I have added a Last.FM playing screen to Now Playing with 10 preset stations configurable from the inside the LUA code. The labels for the station buttons also come from the LUA code so that the CCF is not hard-coded.

John

 

[jwilson56]

I have the first stab at my light control panel. The panel uses animated gifs to show light status, motion detector status, whole house audio zone power status, and finally a little animated dryer to show you its running.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Ok guys what do you think so far?

I just got my 1 wire stuff so I need to add that. Harleydude is working on his email/voicemail plugin and will be adding that also. I also need to do my 5 zone tuner screen.

Any feedback?


John

 

[jwilson56]

I will be going in for an operation on my back next week. I will be offline for awhile while I recover. So if I do not respond you will know why.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Well I am back..... and have upgraded to the latest NR 2 release.. (.104) and have to say its running great!!! I have 3-8% CPU usage on my clients. The screens seem snappier...

One note.. Ben is no longer with Promixis. He has been replaced with Tim who seems to be doing an excellent job with NR and NRD.

Girder 5 is coming along very well... my system ran for months while I was on vacation and all through my surgery and recovery. Will be starting to look forward to working on more features soon.

John

 

[gregking]

I love the house layout diagram. I've been intending to create something
like this for a while to add to my ML system.

I never could figure NR/Grdr. I tried it a couple of times but always got lost in
the UI creation part. I fully understand girder, but something in the way NR was presented
left me not knowing how to create a basic UI.

Does the control on the right side change whenever something in the floorplan is selected?

gk

I have the first stab at my light control panel. The panel uses animated gifs to show light status, motion detector status, whole house audio zone power status, and finally a little animated dryer to show you its running.

John

 

[jwilson56]

Yes when you click on each of the light bulbs it then selects that for the control to the right. Actually I thought NR was the easier of the two myself. Lots of basic functions can be cut and pasted then reskinned quickly.

John