Home Automation

[davidcat]

Hi all, need some help? I need to be able to control a vb program that controls the automation modules within the house, via the internet. I was thinking of asp script to send variables from the website to the server (and therefore to the vb program).So therefore I could say turn the light off from the webpage, this information would be sent to the vb program and would be executed. Also it would be good if the vb program could tell the webpage what lights are on or off?
Please if anyone could help mw with this project I would be very gratefull

Thanks

David Catley

[Rob]

ok.... here's what I think.

The answer is for the VB application and the web site to share the same database.

The VB application should monitor the database at regular intervals to see the state of appliances and whether anything has changed.

The website can obviously see the state of the appliances by querying the database, and can change the state of appliances by writing new values to the database.

Because the VB application is constantly monitoring the database, changes will be picked up upon, and the relevant actions taken.

This is of course one way to do things, and there will of course be other ways.

[GillBates]

If you create a pop box, you can get your application to check for mail every minute or whatever if you have DSL.

Just send a formatted email with instructions to your application, that way you could get it doing different things depending on the text of the mail.

Make sure you have some security to stop any spammers who find the address burning down your house accidentally :wink: