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📸Cameras & Camera Software => Camera General Discussion => Topic started by: ekrause77 on September 23, 2008, 01:45:24 PM
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Good Afternoon,
A friend recently gave me an X-10 set that he's had for about 3 years, with no software. I have all the cameras working, they can switch from my PC using the CM19A. Is there a simple way to send commands from my website to the CM19A to switch cameras? The website is on the same server that the cams/hardware/software are on.
Thanks in advance!
ek
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Win XP - remote desktop sharing - and it's free
You can access you computer desktop fom other computers.
I use it all the time to control programs on other PC on my network.
I have a server that does not have a monitor hooked up to it that I control form other PC's
You should be able to acess your desktop from the internet also, but you may have to set up a virtual port on your router that funnels outside request to your local server IP address.
Same as setting up a game server and acessing it from the web.
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That's how I'm doing it right now, thru remote desktop. However, I don't want to have to log into my PC just to send a switch command. I was thinking more along the lines of going to a website and pushing a button to swith them. Any thoughts?
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you could write some clever scripts for win media player, thats how i open my garage door with my pda
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One idea pops into my brain at the moment.
If you wrote a web script/web page that could save all the x10 button states to a file.
using perl, php, java, whatever.
your computer at home can check the web site at some interval, say once a minute.
your home computer would have to retrieve the web server button file and act accordingly.
Of course, google might would find your web script and link to it.
It is possible anyone could open your web page and turn on your toaster.
Just a quick thought in between several other things I am doing.
There's probably a way easier way to do it.