EventGhost

Sure I believe you without a doubt that the Arduinos with WIFI are cheap, low power and reliable. I do not want WIFI due to health considerations - that's the main reason. Other than that the Arduinos might be a good solution for my home as well and I will look into this topic at some time but for ...

Thanks for the insight :)
So the additional mini computers (Arduinos) do the room detection for you. Well, currently I only use one IR repeater with many cables in my house so that only one detector is there for IR signal reception. It's virtually impossible to do automatic room detection this way ...

*LOL!*

Yeah, we seem to be on exactly the same trip. Hopefully your wife / girl friend does support your "crazy automation disease" ;) You know what I am talkin' about :lol:

You seem to be indeed two steps further because I have just begun to go that extreme. But it has long been in my mind before ...

I also designed my own home automation system ;) And this is now the second iteration which is dramatically more potent than the previous one. But my approach is different because I only have ONE central PC which controls everything and multiple displays, USB speakers, USB mirophones, sensors and ...

Why don't you consider using EG as a kind of server and your QT for the GUI part. Exchange messages between them using MQTT.

Sure - that would be one way of solving this issue and I was already thinking in this direction for a second. But it feels like some undesired complexity just for ...

Hmmm, and why would that be so? Well both are GUI frameworks that control windows and the controls in them, so maybe they are not designed to share that function.

I have no specific knowledge that there would be a problem, it is just an idea that might be the case.

Edit: Doing a search I only ...

jonib wrote:Just a thought but maybe PyQT4 and wxPython (that EventGhost uses) are not able to work at the same time in the same application.

jonib

Hmmm, and why would that be so?

what i did was



import sys
sys.path += ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\EventGhost\\Lib\\site-packages']

import PyQT4



i pointed the python system right to the folder where Qt4 is then imported

i was doing this from the py.exe located in the EG folder

Well this was how far I already came before ...

and i am correct in saying that python is loading from a zip, it's using it as an image file

Ok, I had a look at this zip, too. But I do not think that there is any reason other than keeping the folder "clean" and maybe also preventing users from easily messing with it. This approach is still ...

i managed to get the library to import using the python shell that came with EG, but when i do the same thing in a script it just crashed EG. there has to be some kind of compatibility problem with it and not an installation issue.

Yes this is what I am also suspecting... but why is Eventghost ...

and oh as far as the symbolic links there are a few different kinds, and i don't recall off the top of my head which one it is that pretty much tricks everything except the filesystem

and it will also make the links across a network :-D

i also like it because it has shell integration and to have ...

Thank you, your help is very much appreciated :)

Well, I have been able to successfully use many other libraries in the site-packages folder of Eventghost with no issues. But QT4 kill EG immediately.
Also if Eventghost does what you say it's way too complicated how it is done and should be ...

Hi kgschlosser,

thanks for taking your time to recreate the issue :D I don't get your details regarding the zip decompression procedure or why that would be necessary...
Well, to work around the folder location issue I already had created a symbolic link with this nice package:
http://schinagl ...

Well, the folder to which it has been installed is correct because to ensure it I recreated the expected structure with symbolic links. This cannot be the problem.
There is no "import error" or anything but instead the Eventghost application really crashes hard (I suspect an exception that goes ...

Hi folks,

to improve the visual quality of the OSD I wanted to implement my own - which I did. Now I have a file containing several classes which will display some widgets with text, images etc. I have developed these classes with a standalone Python26 + PyCharm to implement and test them ...