I have an sqblaster and a vera. I’ve got them both set up and they do an excellent job of managing lights and AV gear through SQ Remote. Maybe this is obvious, but it seems like sqremote can call and control vera managed zwave devices and scenes–no problem.
Can vera manage SQ Remote, or can AV gear only be controlled directly by Vera via ip or rs232?
I’d like to be able to have a sensor or event trigger my AV gear. One implementation would be to have zwave motion sensor trigger TV to pause and switch to show camera feed for 30 sec, then switch back to show and resume playing.
I am curious if anyone has managed to do something roughly like this, and if so, how did you do it and with what gear?
MiOS supports basic control of AV gear via a small set of fixed serviceId’s each with a limited set of Actions. These handle things like DiscretePower (On and Off), along with InputSelection, Volume control (Volume up/down, mute) and a whole lot of other primitives.
If a plugin implements these, then it will show up in AV enabled control points like SQRemote… Where you can associate these Actions with buttons in the UI.
You can see a few examples of these over on Code.mios.com, such as the Panasonic TV, DirecTV, Onkyo Reciever etc,etc.
In addition to these, there is an SQBlaster plugin that lets Vera ‘see’ the SQBlaster, and control associated devices, by converting the SQRemote Device files into ones suitable for MiOS. This conversion must be done by hand, by running a few manual steps on the SQRemote device files, but the outcome is something that installs into MiOS, implements the above mentioned AV serviceIds, and can fully participate in scenes.
Using this approach, you can use SQRemote to do things with IR devices and MiOS devices directly, as well as using MiOS to control things via more compound scenes (like the one you describe)
Look in the Remotes/SQRemote section of the forum for more information on this.