3rd party Web Based Status/Control?

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I’m looking to integrate a web based status/control for Vera into a ‘master front-end’ for my HTPC/HA.

Anyone have any web code that does this already?

The framework I’m using is www.maraschinoproject.com. It would be great to have a Vera module for their framework.

If you have XBMC, Sickbeard, SABnzd, etc… give maraschino a look.

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Have a look at media portal
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/topic,8920.0.html

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The other one you may wish to review is
http://www.jordanhackworth.com/home-automation-with-xbmc/

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Hi Aaron

How are you progressing in your quest?
I’m curious to hear what you end up doing as i too have an image in my head of some kind of overlay to my tv that will pop up events, information as a when things are triggered.

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@Aaron, I have been messing around a bit with Python Twisted code that grabs Vera userdata in JSON format (following the UI Simple example) and puts it into a SQLite database. My code is still pretty ugly and there are things that don’t work yet, but I have done enough to know that it should be straightforward to integrate a Vera plugin into Maraschino. You would have to use threads instead of twisted I think from a quick look at the source code.

I’m using a slightly different route. I also want a master front end for my Vera and various other things in my house (Denon receiver, Squeezebox players, XBMC or PLEX, and Windows Media Center). I love my Vera but it doesn’t have quite enough umph to control everything I want to do through it and it is too much work writing all the interfaces myself.

I am probably going to use EventGhost along with the new EventGhost Websocket plugin. One of the EG developers (Pako) put togeather a demo that I’ll probably start with and combine with my own Python Twisted based backend: Event Ghost Websocket Suite.