Wow, haven’t posted any projects since may 8th?! Most of my effort was spent in playing with the kids over the summer and in porting XTension to Cocoa. We’ve been a carbon app so long because we like to support older operating system versions, indeed we still supported PPC machines up until the most recent build. Thats just got to change, we’re never going to be in the app store or run properly in the sandbox if we don’t get around to leaving some of that behind. The PPC and pre-10.7 builds of XTension will continue to receive bug fixes but are basically done. I’ve been running my house on the cocoa version for almost a month now without difficulty and the ease of doing some important things is just wonderful. Even though the conversion was not at all painless it’s coming along nicely and the UI things I can do now alone make it worth while.
The last few days I’ve been fighting with an xBee breakout board and a Wiznet card trying to build a remotely hosted xBee network. Under most circumstances you can just add more xBee’s in between the area you need to cover and the host machine and connect it directly to the XTension machine, but that isn’t always feasible. So if you have any desire to host an xBee network with the xBee coordinator sitting on an ethernet network somewhere other than where you can reach with a USB cable from your XTension computer here’s the connections you’ll need to make.
Mac Home Automation - Hosting an xBee on a Wiznet card
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