More ways to speak to your Insteon Devices

Like many programs there is always more ways to do one thing. Here is another way I found to talk to my PLC what I’ve been able to get is that i’m sending the direct HEX (PLM) commands to the PLC. Which in turn makes  the processing faster. In my environment it helped a little [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Software:Play WAV,MP3 and Playlists, from your program.

One of the cool things of the program is to be able to play sounds, and play other formats on-demand.  For this example we will play a chime clock at noon. There are a couple of ways of doing this (API Calls, command line etc), The way I will show is for me the simplest [...]