Wednesday, March 24, 2010

(03-24-2010) Slow progress...

I have been working some on home automation. The home automation software that I have written seems good, but since the latest upgrade in operating systems to Windows 7 the USB to 4 COM port adapter I have seems to have trouble addressing a single port. Instead, a command sent to COM3, for example, is broadcast to all ports and this causes problems with garbage being sent and received on all ports.

I have been working on a few other small things. I wrote a new TV episode / movie release date scraper that will alert me when my new favorite shows are coming or a movie in a genre I like is being released. Not sure how I want to handle the use of this, maybe I'll tweet myself to let me know...

Anyway, I just wanted to update things here because it had been dormant for so long.