Shady wrote:Just wondering where I should start and any help is appreciated.
I have a VEra from micasaverde.com controlling my house and I would love to use the Infocast as another control point. All of the devices in Vera (lights, thermostats, locks, etc) are available and exposed via UPNP commands. Should I be using flash-lite to write a chumby app or...? again I am new so any help is appreciated.
I don't know anything about Z Wave devices but the micasaverde description of Vera looks very interesting. You may have brought them a new customer :-)
My first approach would be to run a web browser (see wiki.chumby.com) on my Chumby/Infocast and access the built-in web server on the Vera. At a guess, the Vera web pages are too busy for our small screens, but I still think this is a good place to start if only to show that the systems talk to each other.
Once I understood how the Vera exposes functions through its web server, I'd start thinking about what I would want my flash applets to do.
I don't think I'd want to start accessing devices directly via UPNP. That's too low-level for my blood. I'd have to know too much about how each device worked, where it is, etc., and the Vera has already got that intelligence built in.
As always, your mileage may vary.
Regards,
Kent