Embedding Xtension Data on a Web Page

Sean Lavigne sean at houselavigne.us
Fri Apr 13 10:03:01 EDT 2018


James,

Thank you for your reply!  

> That last one is probably the simplest way to get it working again actually ;) But I saved it for last to encourage you to move to a new way of doing it. I’m very curious what you are building a display for? Is this for displaying on some separate machine? Tell us what you’re using this for and it will also help me to make better suggestions.


We’re still getting situated in the new house, so I’m still deciding which way to go as far as iPhone based controls.  The easiest method would be to continue using the X2Web pages we used in our last couple of houses, as you mentioned.  They have big clearly labeled buttons that changed color based on state and resulted in a high spouse approval factor.  

I’d also like to roll our weather station and Raspberry Shake earthquake station into a combined web page for at least internal LAN use and maybe for serving pages over the internet.  The weather station data imports into XTension via AppleScript and the Shake produces an updated .gif chart every couple of minutes that I also import into XTension as an icon via AppleScript.

Finally, I’ve got a couple of extra small screens that I’m thinking about turning into status boards using a RaspberryPi running FullPageOS to drive them using a full screen web browser.

Honesty, it’s been so many years/houses/retirement/new career/etc. since I built our X2Web pages, I can’t even recall what I used to roll the html.  I really appreciate your detailed reply, I’ll play around with the various methods and see what damage I can do :)

Cheers,

Sean




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