get current status?

[Chuck]

The problem with that, is that if your computer doesn't start up for a week, your coffee pot could've been on all that time.

You need to have a script, that is conditional.

If no motion in the kitchen for 30 minutes then
Turn off coffee pot
end if

There are times that I don't restart my computer for six months.

Chuck

Sent from my iPhone. Butchered by Siri.

> On Sep 8, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Dee Dee Sommers <deesquared at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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