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🖥️ActiveHome Pro => ActiveHome Pro General => Topic started by: joedownloader on November 10, 2010, 07:55:00 PM
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I'm looking for a small command line utility to send x10 commands to a cm11a device. Needs to be able to run under windows 7 and be able to send a dim command to a light module at a specified dim percentage. Anyone know of something like this?
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not for windows...only for linux
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There was a file called X10Comm.exe that came with the old versions of Active Home that worked as a command line utility with the CM11A. Don't know if that would still work with Win7.
With Active Home Pro, there's a file called ahcmd.exe found in Program Files> Common Files > X10 > Common. I've only used it with the CM15a though and not sure that it works with the CM11A.
Example syntax is:
ahcmd sendplc a1 dim 50
Type ahcmd alone to get a list of other parameters. There also are PresetDim1 and PresetDim2 variables.
If all you need to do is send and you don't care much as far as error handling, etc., then you probably can just pipe the codes from the command line (or batch file) > COM1.
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I tried it and unfortunately it does not work.
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I don't have an ETA, but CM11A support is coming to ActiveHome Pro in the near future. Once this is implemented a command line app could easily be created using the ActiveHome SDK. Any existing command line apps to do this built using the SDK should also work once this support goes in as well.
Keep an eye on the ActiveHome Pro history page to see when the update goes live. http://www.x10.com/support/rev_ahp.htm (http://www.x10.com/support/rev_ahp.htm)
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I don't have an ETA, but CM11A support is coming to ActiveHome Pro in the near future. Once this is implemented a command line app could easily be created using the ActiveHome SDK. Any existing command line apps to do this built using the SDK should also work once this support goes in as well.
Keep an eye on the ActiveHome Pro history page to see when the update goes live. http://www.x10.com/support/rev_ahp.htm (http://www.x10.com/support/rev_ahp.htm)
Will this involve a new driver? What about an update to the SDK?
What about the ability for more logging, and/or to automatically dump the logs using a command line switch (such as: "activehm.exe /l [log file name]" or something like that)?
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Will this involve a new driver?
No.
What about an update to the SDK?
Also in the works.
What about the ability for more logging, and/or to automatically dump the logs using a command line switch
No plans to add this at the moment, but I'll see if I can bundle some of this up with JB's suggestion for a new mobile app to view the Activity Monitor remotely. I don't think we have any plans to do more logging than we currently are, but if we make a mobile app to build some human readable HTML containing the current log there is no reason we can't just save it out to a file at that point too.
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ErikP:
If you guys keep at this bit of improving the software, I'm going to need some depends.
#:)
I can't wait to see what you guys do next!