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xPLMyHouse is an attempt to provide a graphical interface to an xPL Network

It consists of a "Pivot" which is the nerve centre of the system, a "Client" thru which you can control and design your system and a "Web Server" that allows you to view and control your system from anywhere in a PC Browser or hand held device browser.
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An xPLMyHouse system consists of one or more "floors" with rooms, doors and devices drawn/dropped onto them

Installation

Important: the previous beta release data files are not compatible with this version. Sorry.

You can download the latest installation package from here (last updated 02/06/2010 @ 12:25) and simply run "setup.exe" on the Windows PC/Server you wish to act as the "Pivot". Patches for the new version of xPLMyHouse can be obtained from the Change Log.

Both the Pivot and Web Server are windows services. By default the services are set to manual start up.

To start the pivot, simply start the service (control panel / administrative tools / services)

(Note: if after starting the Pivot service you see in the application folder a file called error_log.txt and it contains mention of an error related to scripting then you need to install the Microsoft Scripting Control. If you have xPLHal on the same machine then this should already be installed)

If you require the Web Server to run on the same PC/Server then you can also start the Web Server service, but you should not do this until you have created at least 1 floor in the system. If you prefer to run the Web Service on a different PC/Server simply run the setup.exe on that PC/Server and disable the pivot service (as you can only have 1 pivot in a network, although you can have multiple Web Servers if required)

To run the client simply copy the contents of the "Client Install" folder to any PC's you wish to run it from. On first start up there will be a delay while it copies all images and webcam definitions to a local cache. It is also valid to run the client (xPLMyHouse.exe) directly from the "Client Install" folder if you like

You can run the client on the same PC/Server as the Pivot and Web Server, or on any other PC on the local network. You can also, though I don't know why you'd want to, run the client multiple times on the same PC

IMPORTANT: Any PC/Server running a Pivot, a Web Server or a Client MUST have a working xPL Hub installed to function correctly

The installation also includes a MediaNetRollup.zip which MediaNet users should apply to MediaNet (backup your old version first) to add compatibility for use with xPLMyHouse.

Also, on the xPL Software page of this site, i've added updates to a couple of my existing xPL applications and a bunch of new applications (well old applications rewritten as windows services). You may want to install these to get the best experience from my own applications

Initial Configuration

You are not required to make any configuration changes before you get started, however the Pivot uses, by default, the multicast IP address 239.0.0.8 and port 58800 and detects the host name of the PC/Server it is running on. If required/needed you can change these values by editing data\mypivot.xml

IMPORTANT: Microsoft made a change to the DNS service in windows which means it grabs thousands of ports and holds them open. This means that if any port used by xPLMyHouse (e,g, 58800) is grabbed by DNS they will fail to start. If you think you have this problem then try stopping the DNS service, starting the xPLMyHouse service that is not starting, then starting DNS service again. There are a number of "fixes" for this on the Internet, but I haven't yet found one that seems to work for me!

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