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Posted by Enrico Fichtner on 01/25/08 10:17
Hi folks,
I don't if this is the right newsgroup for that question, if not pls.
could someone guide me to the right one ;)
In my home, I have a computer sitting in the basement controlling all
kinds of consumers in our house (lights, outlets - e.g. for TV, heater
and so on). The switches in the walls do not switch the power, they just
send singnals to the computer and that eventually (through a
self-written program) turn on the consumers.
For that scenario I have also written a neat client application (C++)
that shows on different tabs the top view for each floor (and the
garage) - on those vies you can see all the different consumers (like
bulbs or outlets) as icons. Clicking on them turns the consumer on/off -
it reflects the state of the consumer by using different icons (bulb on,
bulb off). The client is connected through CORBA with the server.
What I would like to do is, to come up with a web-based solution equal
to that client. I think plain html drops out because it can not be
notified when a consumer changes its state. The only two possibilities I
can think of would be using Java-Applets or a flash animation. With the
latter one I have no experience whatsoever, it is just a (uneducated)
guess.
Anyone who could lend a hand on this project?
BTW: I could easely integrate a web server into the controller or run
Apache on the same machine.
Thanks!
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