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RE: [ECS] ECS Web Interface Martin Terry Fri, 19 May 2000 07:43:37 -0700

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Right now, no. I don't have my house on-line (on the internet) and don't
plan to soon. :)

I DO have a local LAN in my house. My machine that runs ECS is in my garage.
Right now I use ACE on a computer in my Family Room to do all my interface
and controls. If you're not familiar with ACE, it's a GUI front end to ECS
that communicates via TCP/IP.

Here's a link similar to what I'd like to accomplish:
http://house.protowrxs.com/ 

This would allow me to combine information from ECS seamlessly with that of
other sources, for example news, weather and TV listings on the internet. It
would allow me to select any graphics elements I choose.

Currently I'm working through the JAVA example Mark has included with the
last ECS distribution. The current ECS version builds web pages based on the
group screens. Whatever items you place in a group, and their size and
location is duplicated in the web page ECS automatically generates. I'd
really rather generate the web page from scratch, which you can do by
looking at the code ECS automatically generates now. However, if you're new
to JAVA, there's a significant learning curve, as I am learning. :)



-----Original Message-----
From: donstephens@101freeway.com [mailto:donstephens@101freeway.com]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 7:24 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] ECS Web Interface


I'm curious as to what you are trying to do...Is there some place where we
could see what you are trying to do?


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> Martin Terry wrote:
> >
> > Because I'd rather use html to describe the item. I just want ECS to
help
> > generate the page with the current status. HTML is already much more
> > flexible, why reinvent the wheel?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:omnip@usit.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 6:19 PM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] ECS Web Interface
> >
> >
> > I don't know why you would want to see JUST the
> > State, but one of the "STATE" Icons will do it.
> > --
> > Mark Gilmore
> > Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> > http://www.usit.com/omnip
> > 423-745-0026
> > Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST
> >
> > Martin Terry wrote:
> > >
> > > OK, that can get me an icon only, what if I want to see the state of
an
> > item
> > > and nothing else?
>

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