C-Touch Color Screen

Is it possible to run other windows programs on the touch screen at startup - how do you configure it to do so? and to use USB ports for extra memory.
Also is there anyway to increase memory capacity of flash card - its very small?

 

thanks ashleigh

Does the c-touch screen run a special version of homegate or is the exactly the same? - I notice it does not use c-gate driver like the standard pc versions? - I think it uses the new cbm.dll driver - is this the same driver that can be downloaded from website?

Can you run the pc windows version of homegate with the cbm.dll driver instead of c-gate?

Homegate has a Program run command where you can open and run any file - can homegate be setup to always open and run a particlur file at startup?

 

It is a special version

Correct

Yes

Yes

No

No

 

Thanks Guys

I was looking at the prospect of running other applications on the color touch screen that has access to and shares the built in cbus pci - looks like the system is pretty well locked up and designed not to allow for this?
Its a shame cause you basically have an expensive pc there that is limited to running home gate only, especially with the usb ports locked out and flash size limitations.

 

You are never going to be able to "share" the PCI, regardless of whether the C-Touch Colour is "locked down" or not. The PCI simply is not designed to allow multiple clients.

You can get other applications to talk with HomeGate via TCP/IP sockets and get HomeGate to act as an interface to C-Bus for you. In this case, it is just HomeGate talking directly to the PCI.

 

Darren - does the cbm.dll API driver in the touch panel support access to the same API from a another application and hence the same pci ?

Can you give a typical example of how this would be done?

 

No

The processes in using TCP/IP sockets to communicate with third-party devices are mostly the same as for serial devices. Please read logic help file "Serial IO Examples" before continuing.

For this example, the protocol consists of two messages to switch group addresses on and off:

on GroupAddress CR LF
off GroupAddress CR LF

Where GroupAddress is the group address number to be controlled.

All commands in this particular protocol are terminated with CR LF, which is an ASCII "Carriage Return" (number 13 decimal) followed by an ASCII "Line Feed" (number 10 decimal).

For this example, the software is acting as a TCP/IP server. Messages will be received from a client switching group addresses on and off.

In the initialisation section of the code, the server socket (number 12345 in this case) needs to be opened:

Code:

OpenServerSocket(12345);

In a module, the messages are read from the socket, processed to determine the action required, and then the action is performed (switching a group address on or off):

Code:

{ Read a message from the socket }
ReadServerSocket(ReceivedCommand, #13#10);

{ If a message has been received, then process it }
if length(ReceivedCommand) > 0 then
begin
  if pos('on', ReceivedCommand) = 1 then       // is it an "on" command?
  begin
    Copy(GroupString, ReceivedCommand, 4, 3);  // get the group address
    Group := StringToInt(GroupString);
    SetLightingState(Group, ON);               // switch the group on
  end
  else
  if pos('off', ReceivedCommand) = 1 then      // is it an "off" command?
  begin
    Copy(GroupString, ReceivedCommand, 5, 3);  // get the group address
    Group := StringToInt(GroupString);
    SetLightingState(Group, OFF);              // switch the group off
  end
  else
end;

This is a fairly simplistic example, but should give you the idea.