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onhiatus
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I'm trying to get the next X items in my Outlook Calendar to display on a powerhome psp page.
My current plan is to write a small app that just dumps a text file with a couple weeks worth of entries, but I started thinking about the possibilities (whole house audio announcing up coming appointments, PH setting your alarm clock for the first earlier than normal appointments, etc) and it occured to me that someone may have already done something like this.
So, anyone interfaced PH with outlook?
Dave, any interest in adding this kind of functionality? Also, what ever happened to the plug in support...
Thanks, Tony
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Tony,
Plug-in support is still coming...Im just way behind  . It won't make the next beta and the release should be after that, but it should be in the first beta after the release.
Never tried interfacing with Outlook. Sounds interesting though. Let me know how your efforts go and if you happen across an SDK. It may be something that support can be added for.
Dave.
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onhiatus
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Should be easy, the Outlook Object Model looks pretty conventional. It should be relatively easy to write an interface.
I found a ton of pretty simple code on MSDN
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Nice timing on this topic, I was just thinking how I could get my calendar from Outlook into PH. The first battle is getting my work calendar over to the PH system since we don't have direct access to work stuff except through the web interface.
I was thinking of using Yahoo Sync to pull everything from work into Yahoo. Then, Sync again between Yahoo and Outlook Express on the PH system. Then drop that stuff to a text file. However, that seems like a lot of work, so I'm looking for a way to Sync direct to file and possibly e-mail that file over to the PH system. 
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onhiatus
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I just today wrote a simple console app that dumps the outlook calendar items for a specified date. The only option I have is to specify some separator text (to go between multiple appointments)
You can specify a relative date:
getCal.exe 0 'Today
getCal.exe 1 'Tomorrow
Or a specific date
getCal.exe 2007 12 15 'Dec 15, 2007
Output is something like:
This is an all day appointment
8:00-9:00 a.m.: Is a one hour morning appointment
11:30-12:30 p.m.: Is lunch
4:15-5:45 p.m.: Is a late afternoon appointment
I've tested it on Outlook 2002, and it should work on Outlook 2003 - I don't think it will work on anything earlier...
After a bit more testing if anyone is interested I can post the exe and dlls somewhere.
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onhiatus wrote:
| I just today wrote a simple console app that dumps the outlook calendar items for a specified date.After a bit more testing if anyone is interested I can post the exe and dlls somewhere. |
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just stumbled on this posting... over a year old but how far are you with this?
Peter
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onhiatus
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Peter, it works great. I have a daily job that the dumps out the next ten days of schedules every night at midnight. This is integrated into my HA display and since my phone syncs via a bluetooth as soon as I walk in the house - well, it's always mostly current.
I recently posted the executable to another thread - you can find it here: Calendar Software: http://www.myx10.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1503&KW=onhia tus
I've added a few minor format keys since then, but it should give you a good idea of what I've got and how to use it.
Let me know if it helps you out! Someday I plan on rewritting as a PH plugin, but don't see it happening anytime soon...
Older version of my home screen showing calendar integration:
Additional images can be found in previous post here
- Tony
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