very nice solution to this problem. I’ve found this an article featured on digg.com and it’s much more stable and sleek than the original solution in the aforementioned article.

The only problem I’ve got is that from time to time my bluetooth phone doesn’t seem to react quick enough so the “leaving” action is triggered. What I’d like to have is some kind of “second chance” mechanism trying to connect to the bluetooth device again after a short delay before triggering the actions.

Would that be possible or is it a bad idea altogether?

Keep up the good work!
Henrik

tell application “Print Center”
set myprinter to printer (printerchoice as string)
set current printer to myprinter
end tell

When I enter with my BT phone, I have it set to run the action “disable screen saver password” and then runs my applescript.

Also, thanks for the advice. I’ll go change that now.

David

However, I’m curious if your screensaver script also works for you if there is a screensaver password enabled. For me, the script only switches from screen saver to password dialog, which is the main reason I didn’t include it myself.

Since the stop screen saver action was not configure, I made my own action and it seems to work. Tell me if I am doing this incorrectly:

Looking first at the package contents (right-clicking HomeZone and then clicking Show package contents), I noticed under Contents>Resources>Actions were the “.homezoneaction” files. I simply copied one as a template and then opened the package yet again to take a look at the package’s files.

It seems like there are two main files that make this go. One is the shell script or applescript file located under the Resources folder of the homezoneaction file and the other is the Info.plist that provides metadata regarding the particular action. Modifying the Info.plist file, it looks like that only a few things need to be changed. One is the CFBundleIdentifier, the CFBundleName, the HZActionIdentifier (and it looks like that these can be named whatever). The other is the HZActionAppleScript or HZActionShellScript (depending on whether the file inside the Resources folder is an applescript or a shell script) which should be named to the script’s file name.

Anyways, I made an applescript that just disables the screen saver by issuing the command ‘tell application “ScreenSaverEngine” to quit’ and after restarting HomeZone and adding a new “Enter” action, it seems like this action worked (Though I’m not 100% sure that this isn’t causing bad things to happen). It’s nice being able to walk away from my computer, knowing that it’s completely secured.

I guess the next thing I’m going to try to do is link it with iAlertU so that it automatically enables it when I leave and disables it when I come back.

Anyways, this is a great product and I’d definitely buy a copy of it when it comes out of beta.

David

In the meantime, I’m having the exact same problem indicated above when I use any interval less than around 30 seconds.

Since I am using it as a proximity detection system to secure my system (among other things), I’d prefer to use a fairly short scan interval, since leaving my Powerbook unsecured for even 30 seconds after I walk away is really not optimal. The freeware “Proximity” app seems to have no difficulty with scan intervals as short as 5 seconds, but it’s also a very simple little app that does only that one thing.

Thanks for the reply…

I’ll let the pictures do the talking… See:

[url]http://homepage.mac.com/tonyboy/HZ%20Log%20Window.png[/url]
(occured within 10 minutes, without my phone moving a millimetre)

[url]http://homepage.mac.com/tonyboy/HZ%20Preferences.png[/url]

The odd thing is that BluePhoneElite was working without interruption all morning.

Any ideas?
- Anthony