Comments on: Home Zone Beta 6

By: Chris Waldrip

Chris Waldrip — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:50:51 +0000

Sweet. Don’t know how I missed that.

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:05:04 +0000

I set it up with a newÂ home zone, and though I’ve been sitting on my couch for the last half hour, it seems to think that I’m leaving and reentering my home zone. (I have Growl set up to speak to me, and every 5 seconds, it says “enable/disable screensaver password”.

By: Jonas Witt

Jonas Witt — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:21:43 +0000

It already does this, just select the “Start Screen Saver” action.

By: Robert Loomans

Robert Loomans — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:56:11 +0000

You can download it from MacUpdate: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24145

To be honest, I haven’t downloaded it ‘cos I haven’t yet needed the functionality…

Plus, a complete and utter lack of spare time to learn AppleScript, and Home Zone does 90% of what I want…

By: Chris Waldrip

Chris Waldrip — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:16:04 +0000

Automatically starting the screensaver would be a great addition. So when I leave my machine with my cell phone on me the screensaver kicks in.

Great app, by the way.

By: Jonas Witt

Jonas Witt — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:36:20 +0000

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of WiFiScriptor until now. However, I’m unable to download it. Could you mail the application to me (jonas at this domain) or provide a download link? Unfortunately though, not all useful actions can be performed using AppleScript.

I’ve noted your suggestions and will try to add them to a later release. At the moment, I’m working on creating a plugin-architecture for actions, so adding more actions will be easier in the future, users can create their own actions and maybe there will also be an online repository for actions. Also, I drafted a much improved interface and [i]Louis[/i] has provided some awesome icons, but this may take some time to complete.

By: Robert Loomans

Robert Loomans — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:18:16 +0000

There is a similar (simpler) utility that has related capabilities…

http://semaja2.net/wifiscriptorinfo

The difference is that you run arbitrary AppleScript, which you can edit from in the program.

By: Robert Loomans

Robert Loomans — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:54:35 +0000

A couple of suggestions for more actions:

– switch to login screen

– adjust running services (APF, FTP, etc) and/or firewall rules

… and more triggers:

– sleep and wake

– devices on wired network (MAC addresses?)

– time ranges

Do you have a donations setup? I would be happy to contribute small amounts periodically…

By: roeme

roeme — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:01:31 +0000

Oops, versehentlich Submit erwischt. Das Problem scheint doch nicht (zumindest nicht alleine) am BT-Scan zu liegen. Ich vermute den Fehler im Airport-Scan, jedenfalls liegt der Schluss nach dem Output des Crashreporters und der Airport-Netzwerkliste nahe: Die Liste zeigt bei mir z.B. mehrere Netze an (obwohl nur eines vorhanden ist), einige davon mit leerem Namen, andere mit kryptischen Bezeichnungen und wieder andere tragen den “richtigen” Namen des Netzwerkes verziert mit einer variierenden Anzahl von Sonderzeichen.

Hier noch der Output des Crashreporters:
[code]
Thread 4 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x9297c120 _NSRaiseError + 264
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x9297be5c +[NSException raise:format:] + 40
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x92942468 -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:] + 124
3 de.metaquark.homezone 0x000054f4 -[JWAirportNetworkScanner(Private) _getNetworks] + 616
4 de.metaquark.homezone 0x00005100 -[JWAirportNetworkScanner(Private) _runUpdateThread:] + 72
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92961194 forkThreadForFunction + 108
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002b508 _pthread_body + 96

[/code]

Jo, das wÃ¤rs dann. FÃ¼r weitere Fragen siehe meine Email.

Toi toi toi und weiter so!

By: roeme

roeme — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:44:36 +0000

Left some suggestions there: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/homezone

Tools schmiert auch bei mir regelmÃ¤ssig ab. Es scheint der Bluetooth-Scan schuld zu sein