Flash Screen so-far – End of July 2008

Here are my screens so far.  As you can see there is now text that is dynamically populated. I picked a relative small window, in this case 574.1 x 430.05 and work everthing in that, cleaner and simple. The Jukebox function basically tells my server to open a HTML page and play a radio URL. [...]

Images, Images and Images…?

Another day another dollar.  Now that im working with flash and I recommend the same, that you get yourself the right tools to work with the images. It’s all about the images and the presentation. For creating my main images I used Corel’s PhotoImpact, before used to be owned by Nova development, it has all [...]

What’s up with vista (Server stops responding)?

I have to let my ‘Vista’ rant out, here is my situation, my Main server is on a wireless PC running XP (Hopefully I can migrate to the main server). But a Vista PC for some reason cannot ping or see it after some time has passed, note that it does respond as long as [...]

Handy quick VB functions which I’ve used

I’ve moved that page to the Main Page since I update it frequently. That page has been moved here

Disabling Dusk / Dawn feature in Eagle Eye motion sensor

If you like me you really don’t need to know when its dusk and dawn, especially if your getting your sunset, sunrise information daily from the Internet.  Also the Eagle eye will transmit this on the next unit #. For example if you have it configured for A1 it will transmit dawn and dawn in [...]

How to open and send data in a specific port in VB / 2005

Hi, in a previous article I had shown how to monitor & capture data on a specific port using VB. Mainly to allow my server send out notification to the clients, like a Caller ID Alert. That article can be found here How to monitor and capture data in a specific port in VB / 2005 [...]

Installing a Insteon Switchlinc or Icon switch device

Here are some images I just took of a SwitchLinc installation, the same applies for all others such as Keylincs, Icons Relays, Dimmers etc. Like the manual you have to identify your Neutral, Hot or Line, and your Load. The cables on the switchlinc are clearly identified. with labels and by color, White = Neutral [...]

Grabbing individual files via FTP in VB 2005 / VB

For my voice mail / Caller-ID function I placed the name / number of the person in a database but also I have the name of my contact (joe.png, luis,jpg etc), After Ive retrieved the information, I FTP back to the server to grab the image file Here is how its done. For the example; [...]

Hardware:Controlling your Garage door using X10

The following is a example of how I setup to control my garage door using simple X10 devices.  When budget permits I’ll bump up to the Insteon (sniff, sniff)), For this device to work I was lucky the circuit the garage door opener is on is close to my insteon/x10 PLC so I get a [...]

How to monitor and capture data in a specific port in VB / 2005

In one of my  previous post I had shown how to capture the Caller Id info of a modem.  So what do I do this the information?? In my case I notify all the PC in the house a particular caller / number is ringing by sending data on a specific port.  So they know [...]