PPC Display

[harleydude]

I see there is an IR code to turn the display off:

5001 0000 0000 0002 FC19 0003 0004 0000

Is there a code to turn the display back on? I would like to be able to turn the display on to provide popups to the user.

What version of NR is required?

Thanks
Rick

[Jlee]

You can only turn the display back on by pressing a hard button. It's been available since early versions of 1.0, maybe earlier.

[harleydude]

True, but if I have the unit sitting next to me on the table and a call comes in, I would like to have the display turned on and be able to see the CID info without having to touch the unit.

Rick

[Ben S]

Gotcha. So something you could call from Lua, within an OnVariableChange, for instance?

[harleydude]

Bingo!! Thats exactly what I would like to do.

Rick

[Mastiff]

Harleydude, just out of pure interest (since I'm building a system for CID myself now with a couple of cheap modems - one for CID and one as an answering machine) are you using the CID script from the Girder download, or are you using something else?

[harleydude]

I have a Panasonic phone system installed here in the house. The CID is received by it and sent to my computer via RS232. A small VB app monitors the COM port and passes the CID to HomeSeer, which in turns provides the info to NR through the hsGirder plug-in. HomeSeer also voices the CID with TTS, makes it visible on my web site and stores the info for later retreival while I am not home.

Rick

[Promixis]

Rick,

Off topic, but have you made any changes to your lcars ccf lately?

[harleydude]

Yes, I am working on it now. I have most of my integration with HomeSeer working, just need to get the JRMC stuff implemented then I will post to the forums. Once the PPC version is done I will start working on the 800x600 version. I already have most of the screens laid out, will just need to chop them up and move them to a ccf.

Thanks for asking.

Rick

[jwilson56]

Well I am also looking for the same thing as I have just finished my CID page for Nowplaying. If would be nice to get NR to handle this.

If not:

Anyone know of an external program that can turn the monitor ON from a networked computer via a command line maybe?

John

[jwilson56]

Ok.... how do we execute an external program like "MonitorCtrl..exe ON" using the

OnVariableChange function?

Any help from you LUA experts would be appreciated. Thanks

John

[harleydude]

Create a file in the same directory as your ccf and give it the same name as for ccf file with the extension .lua. Paste the following code into that file:



function OnVariableChange()
local pn = NetRemote.GetVariable("CIDEvent")
if (pn=="Incoming") then
NetRemote.ExecuteAction(-999,4,1,"D:\\Development\\Misc\\MonitorCtrl\\MonitorCtrl.ex e MON")
NetRemote.SetVariable("CIDEvent", "")
end;
end;


Change the path of the file to match the location of your MonitorCtrl.exe.

This should work for you. Be sure to reload your ccf when done editing the file.

Rick

[jwilson56]

What variable is it going to be monitoring for change in order to have it trigger? I would assume I will have to add something to my CCF with the right variable in it.

John

[Jlee]

The variable is CIDEvent and it's expected to be a value of 'Incoming'.

[jwilson56]

Gotcha... good news is that it works!!!!! I can now turn the monitor back on.

Thanks

John