(2014-12-16, 00:37)TheNemic Wrote: Wints after reinstall I got it to work with the newest Nightly build and thanks for the help/tip to get it work

(2014-12-17, 04:04)Batiatus Wrote: Have tried following along with recent developments but RL has decided to stick it in and break it off lately.

How's CE working with Kodi now? Any big hiccups with the recent RC releases?

Has anything else changed with CE lately?

Anyone heard from Giftie? I sent him a PM bu haven't seen or heard from him. Hope things are ok with everything.

Last, has ANYONE read my request for help setting up CE with a Vera Z-Wave controller? I'm still lost and have a number of issues to work out, hopefully when I'm off for 2 weeks I can get this all sorted out.

(2014-12-17, 17:45)hoobie7 Wrote: @Batiatus

After a quick Google search it looks like the Vera's take commands via HTTP. LINK.
This is what I use with my InControl Z-Wave setup and it's actually not too difficult.
Look here for Gifties intro to the home automation process.
Find your home_automation.py file.
It should be located here: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.cinema.experience\ha_scripts
Then just find the trigger in the script that you want to dim the lights at, I use "Movie Trailer".
Here's my code:

Code:

# Trailer
        elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]:
            # place code below this line
            urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.0.100:1178/zwave/activateSceneGet?sceneName=Movie%20Start')
            pass

Yours will probably look something like this.
Just change the IP address and port to your Vera, and figure out you scene number.

Code:

# Trailer
        elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]:
            # place code below this line
            urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.1.100:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=1')
            pass

Give it a try.
Lemme know how it goes.

(2014-12-17, 20:55)Batiatus Wrote:

(2014-12-17, 17:45)hoobie7 Wrote: @Batiatus

After a quick Google search it looks like the Vera's take commands via HTTP. LINK.
This is what I use with my InControl Z-Wave setup and it's actually not too difficult.
Look here for Gifties intro to the home automation process.
Find your home_automation.py file.
It should be located here: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.cinema.experience\ha_scripts
Then just find the trigger in the script that you want to dim the lights at, I use "Movie Trailer".
Here's my code:

Code:

# Trailer
        elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]:
            # place code below this line
            urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.0.100:1178/zwave/activateSceneGet?sceneName=Movie%20Start')
            pass

Yours will probably look something like this.
Just change the IP address and port to your Vera, and figure out you scene number.

Code:

# Trailer
        elif trigger == "Movie Trailer" and ha_settings[ "ha_trailer_start" ]:
            # place code below this line
            urllib2.urlopen('http://192.168.1.100:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=1')
            pass

Give it a try.
Lemme know how it goes.

Thanks for this info. I may be able to try this tonight or on the weekend. The biggest issue I've had trying to integrate the Vera has been a lot of old information that doesn't seem relevant. I've asked a number of times publicly and through PM of people who've posted about setting their own systems up. However to this point I've not had any luck getting a response.

My next big challenge is to figure out why the projector won't auto-switch to 3D HSBS and to get Stereoscopic player working with full frame packed 3D support (not CE issues but part of the overall experience).

(2014-12-17, 22:43)aptalca Wrote: The projector won't switch to 3d automatically for hsbs because hsbs files are no different than regular 1080p files in terms of resolution. The projector simply cannot tell the difference (I hear some high end equipment do image analysis to determine hsbs or hou but they are rare and very expensive) the only way xbmc can tell if it's 3d is either by filename or certain tags. The projector does not get any of those, it just gets a 1080p video signal. You have to manually turn 3d on and select sbs or ou.

Frame packed 3d is different in terms of resolution. The vertical resolution is a little more than twice as much compared to 1080p and that's how the projector can tell that it's 3d frame packed and switch output automatically.

(2014-12-18, 01:31)hoobie7 Wrote: @Batiatus

If you wanted to get real fancy you could use that RS-232 port on your projector.
Then you could have XBMC set 3D mode according to the 3D type of the movie.