→ Home Zone beta 4 (Mac OS X 10.4 only)
- Detects hidden, but paired Bluetooth devices
- Setting system volume actions
- Now also checks immediately after waking up
- Availability icons in status bar menu
I’ll try and see how this can be made a system preferences panel, which would probably be a good idea.
February 11th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
klasse, wird ja wirklich immer besser!
February 12th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Nice additions. This app is coming along
February 12th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Weird… it loads and I can see the icon, but all the menu items are greyed out.
Ideas?
February 12th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Hi, I dunno whats wrong, but on my Core2Duo MacBook Pro HomeZone tends to kinda block my wireless lan.
When I ping my router, approx every 15th packet I get packet loss and ping times somewhere around 2000ms.
When quitting HomeZone, everything is fine.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Home Zone scans for available airport networks every 16 seconds (which corresponds to your approx. every 15th packet delay). What it does is the same as running
$ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -s
or opening the wireless status bar item (which also takes a short moment, usually).
This seems to disrupt wireless traffic and is not desirable, that’s right. I’ll see what I can do… Running the above command with -S doesn’t interrupt traffic, but doesn’t give exact results as it also shows older networks, and only checking the network that you’re connected to isn’t very great, either. Maybe Home Zone can perform different types of scans with different intensities in a sensible manner.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Currently not, but I’ll try to switch this to a preference pane anyway so the status bar item won’t be the main interface. Not sure how long this will take, though.
February 12th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Feature Request… So far I love where this cool new app is going. One request though, would be to have it activate the screensaver when Bluetooth device leaves range, so you don’t have to wait for the screensaver to come or manually activate.
Thanks, keep up the good work.
February 12th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I actually thought that Home Zone triggered actions when my computer connects to a certain network. That seems to make more sense to me, but I might miss something.
If I am connected to my neighbors open network I might want all my keychains locked. But Home Zone won’t lock them because my own network is around. That is a little strange, isn’t it?
But for the rest, it’s an excellent app. Right what I need as a freelancer.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:32 am
This is a really good idea for a program, but you should put in more options for when the device leaves or returns (run script, turn on screensaver, etc.)…just a thought
February 13th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Support for starting the screen saver immediately or running shell scripts or AppleScripts will be added soon, and I’m currently working on more flexible Airport scanning (which will include an option to only recognise a network when you’re connected to it). We’re still in beta, so if you can think of other useful actions to include, let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
February 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Love the progress you’ve made on this! It’s just a UI change, but if you allowed “None of the following” as an trigger option (e.g. for locking when none of your Airport networks are available), it might be less confusing for users. As things stand, you have to understand that when you “leave” a network, it means that none of those are available.
Also, while at work and plugged into ethernet, I disable my Airport. However, this automatically switches my location back to Automatic. Can I make it distinguish between when my Airport is off and when it’s simply not connected to my work networks?
February 13th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
The most important feature for me would be the ability to act on ethernet ips or the mac adress of the gateway!
The most time i have wlan aviable but i don’t use it cause i have a ethernet connection wich is a lot faster…
February 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I second this, I see greyed out text in the menu.