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Welcome to Darren's Garage Home Automation Portal.

This site is very much Work In Progress and will develop as time permits. Registered Users will be granted access to the download areas. I will also establish an area for Home Automation Developers to share ideas and code.

I intend to use this portal to bring together a number of HA initiatives I am currently investigating and their progress to date. This portal will also provide access to an online demo of the system I am building.

Currently, Darren's Garage premises are undergoing significant modernisation which will accommodate a number of these HA projects and aspirations. I will share my experiences here as best I can.

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As a consequence of developing the MCEVMail application I spun off this gateway to provide a simple gateway between Asterisk Voice Mail and xAP.

The gateway currently relies on AXC CTI2Info xAP messages to trigger the message sending. When an axc message arrives the gateway checks to see if the associated mailbox is in the gateway watch list (XML file). If it is then a xAP multi body message is sent that lists the folders within that mailbox and the number of messages in each folder. A subsequent multibody xAP messages are sent for each folder listing details of the messages (callerid, duration, URL to audio, ....) . The URL provides http audio header and audio stream (Content-Type: audio/wav).

Full details of the xAP message schema for xAPVMail can be found here

I am adding some simple commands to the gateway. Currently, Status.Request is supported for a MailBox folder and/or message. I will also add a polling interval to enable triggering for...

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Progress on Vista MCE to date

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I bit the bullet and plugged my TDM400P back into my BT PSTN line and lo & behold no echo at all. So it would appear the version of Zaptel in Trixbox 2.0 beta is fixed. I still have random success with calling line ID (CLID) being presented, even though my DECT handsets have no problem displaying it!

A short summary of the configuration being used at NodeZero

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Settings that I have been using for SIP and IAX Trunks with VoIPTalk.org

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First, none of this is anything to due with problems with the TrixBox product. It has taken me many days to get my VoIP PSTN service back up and going and I will share my story here. All the issues relate to changing many things all at once. Are you sitting comfortably......?

Some  weeks ago my SIP VoIP call quality went really bad; echo, call break up and one-way audio. At the same time I was experiencing internet performance problems so I put it down to that. Later it transpired that a full factory reset of my ADSL router was required. So I reverted back to my Zpatel TDM400P to bridge my Asterisk server to my PSTN line. Since moving to VoIP I had stopped publishing this number as I have always had poor echo issues with the TDM400P and unreliable Calling Line ID (CLID). After many days and many configurations I was unable to fix the echo, in fact it got a lot worse! Now my Wife was very displeased and so I shutdown my TrixBox server and reverted to a DECT regular phone.

Not being one to give up...

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Logical Concept Diagram for DarrensGarage

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I have added RSS feeds for the Yahoo xAP Automation and xAP Developer groups see the xAP page for more details

I finally decided to bite the bullet and go with V2 of HomeSeer as my primary automation controller. This was largely due to its maturity, stability, performance & importantly its range of plugins and support from others. Notably, James' xAP HomeSeer conduitMainLobby bridge.

HomeSeer has very good latency with respect to responding to X10 commands received via CM12 and issuing an immediate command back out on the power again. Also, combined with the HomeSeer W80032RF plugin I now find X10 device response to a RF wall switch or motion detector far more acceptable.

The only decision I have to make going forward now is whether to develop HomeSeer plugins to plug my gaps or continue developing xAPplications . I prefer the latter as once stable, I can share these with the xAP community irrespective of  whether they are using HS or not.

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