Unique & Cool things you do with EG?

[Livin]

I thought it would be an interesting discussion to see what things people do with EG.

The focus in this thread should be only on things that you feel are not "normal" but Unique / Cool / Creative ideas you think no others, or very very few, are doing.

Sharing methods and ideas in this way should help everyone improve their setups, get new ideas, and possibly end up leveraging your ideas in totally new ways no one else has seen.

I hope this is something everyone will enjoy participating in.

[jonib]

I don't know if these qualify as "not 'normal' but Unique / Cool / Creative ideas you think no others, or very very few, are doing." (is there a jury that decides? )

I do two things with EventGhost I haven't seen mentioned in the forums.

#1 Show email header (From: and subject:) of an incoming email on my TV so I only get up (if watching a video) if the email is something I'm interested in. It has problems with Unicode but works good enough.

#2 Whenever I put in a CD/DVD EventGhost runs a Disk cataloging software to scan the disk, so I always have a current catalog of my CD/DVDs. Unfortunately I haven't found the perfect cataloging software as the one I'm using now is extremely slow to search with.

jonib

[krambriw]

I guess I use EG in away it was originally not targeted for:

1) Lighting control: outdoor/indoor based on sunset/sunrise with weather data compensation using my own SunTracker plugin

2) Electricity consumers: towel heaters, a number SB (SoundBlasters), Television sets, computer assesories, electric fence against deers, mosquito lamps etc using my own Scheduler as well as Pako's great SchedulGhost

3) Temperatur & humidity & wind & rain data collection from a number of RF devices including calculation of dew point using my own plugin NetHomeServer

4) Awning control using some private plugins that considers both time & weather data when to supply power to motors and wind/sun/rain sensors

5) Collecting movements using a couple of indoor and outdoor IR sensors using the above mentioned NetHomeServer plugin

6) Monitoring some wireless fire detectors in the garage and in the storage. Also here using the NetHomeServer plugin

7) Have some OPC servers running but no real hardware attached...yet

Most of my stuff is RF based. I have a number of USB attached transmitters and receivers for this purpuse; home built variants, RFXCOM, TellStick, TellStick Duo etc

Just started a project to enable use of some (Android) flat panels around the house. Historic problem was to always have the same status presented on each and have this synchronized with EG itself.

At this early stage it seems that I got it working almost perfect. For this I use the following plugins: webserver, webSocket and a new private I trow together yesterday; a webUpdater plugin that has the responsibility to collect all status changes from wherever it comes from, make data persistant and distribute current statuses to all connected webclients as soon as there are changes.

Is for sure a lot of tailoring and you need some basics regarding python, html and java script in a nice little mix.

Now when I test my setup, it doesnt matter how the status is changed; via remote controls, from EG itself or via GUI of the browser. Everything is now synchronized! Also when I connect a new client, it gets updated at connection time. If I have to restart EG (which is very selldom), EG at least has the latest known statuses to distribute.

Everythings looks very nice both in Chrome and Firefox.

Next is to find suitable panels (I understand that Android 2.2 and later supports Chrome) so I just looked at something like this

http://www.vkamobi.com/tablet-pc/a816-google-android-2.3-1080p-hdmi-flash-10.1-webcam.html


Best regards, Walter