This tutorial will show you how easy it is to control your Homeseer devices with a PHP script.

1. Configure DCOM (Check the 'Related Articles' section).
2. Install & configure Apache + PHP (Check the 'Related Articles' section).
3. Create a new file in your webroot directory using notepad, name it index.php.
4. Paste the following code into the index.php file (make sure you change Homeseer.Application to whatever the object is named in your DCOM configuration screen, usually the other name is Homeseer.ClsString.
   <?php
      $hs = new COM("HomeSeer.Application");
      $List=$hs->GetDeviceList();
     
      print "<table>";
     
      for($i=1; $i < $List->Count() + 1; $i++) {
         $What=$List->item($i);
         $device="<tr>";
         $device.="<td width=50>$i</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->Name</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->Location</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->Status</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->hc</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->dc</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->misc</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->interface</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->dev_type_string</td>";
         $device.="<td>$What->buttons</td>";
         $device.="</tr>\n";
         print $device;
      }
      print "</table>";
      unset($hs);
   ?>
5. Go to http://localhost (or the ip address of your machine), and you should see a listing of all the Homeseer devices you have, including all details.
6. Here are some other examples on how to control HS using PHP:
   
   • Turn on a device named "A4":
     $hs->ExecX10("a4","off","0","0");
   • Write to the Homeseer log file:
     $hs->WriteLog("PHP","This is a test");
   • To check the status of a device named "A4":
     $hs->devicestatus("A4");

That's it!

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