get current status?

[Dee Dee Sommers]

Wow!  There are a lot of solutions here.  Thank you all so much.
But here is the deal:
a) In case it is not totally evident, I’m pretty dense about most of this coolness.  So much information exceeds my capacity.

b) I need a solution that can kind of take care of my family.  I’m a home schooling mom so I’m mostly home.  Except I will be making a trip to Mexico in a couple of months and I need to try to have stuff covered so there will still be a home when I return.  (A couple of years ago I was on a 3-day trip to Nebraska.  On the second night I was away, I got at series of text messages from my daughter, the first message being, “Dad broke the house.  We’re at Mellow Mushroom so I can use their wifi.”)

I mean, if I take my laptop with me, I can alway *maybe* tap in with Apple Remote Desktop to try to set things straight, but I’m trying to cover things so my family won’t miss me. kwim?

So from reading the suggestions thus far, I am wondering if I can do a startup script that first checks the (XTension) status of the 2 units I am controlling.  Then, based on the boolean results of that quick n simple poll, just tell each unit to turn on or turn off without script, to be sure the physical modules match what XTension thinks they should be?

(e.g. if (status “coffeemaker”) then
turn on “coffeemaker" without script
else turn off “coffeemaker" without script
end if)

Would that work, or is it too simplistic and naive?

Thank you again for your time and consideration.
Dee Dee


> On Sep 8, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
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