definatelly very cool.   Is there anyway I can get this to work with my situation, or am I still screwed.

BTW:  I spoke with verizon, actually it is earthlink, and they are contracted to verizon, and earthlink will not assist in any third party hardware issues  They ran diagnostics, and tell me everything is good to go, and that I dont or shouldnt have a problem.

I am not sure what I am going to do now, as I just bought a ip cam for my website and I was hoping to steal/ borrow the idea from here to animate the graphix with the aquacontroller stats like on carlos' page. 

I reallly want something like that,  And am bummed that it seems that I am not meant to have it.  First I found a programmer that flaked on me, now I got a different programmer, and he is plugging along, but if I cant get the aquacontroller to go online, it wont do half of what I want it to do, and what it should be albe to to do.

I just plain dont understand.  If someone would tell me, buy this, get that, do this,, I would do it.  But UGGGGGHHHHH

Bill

Carlos, 

Is there anyway I can pay you to build me a website similar to yours, (sufficiently different to not infringe upon your originality)??? 

I would like most of what you got especially the ACIII stuff you have going on. 

But on another page, I would like a picture page, but with comments from visiotrs to suggest or help ID some of the critters that will get posted on that page. 

Other then that, just the normal, links, and DIY page maybe 

I really want something almost exactly like your page, but would not know where to begin, and honestly, have tried with others, that just dont come through in the end. 

So, if there is anyway you can help me out, get me up and running, andhopefully make it so I can update it myself, i.e. put up or take down new pictures, and or other minor stuff that I can hopefully figure out... 

Thanks
Bill

edited by Admin: Removed the extra carraige returns 

There have been a few questions asked about how to use the XML file from the widget or signature genarator. I will try to explain in a basic format how it can be used. Keep in mind that there are many different ways to do this and the method described below is just two of them. This is the way that I am familiar with.

Once you have the XML file loaded to your server you can create a page that will read in the data and format it in HTML. Since I have already covered the XML output in another thread I will assume you are familiar with it and wont cover that file here (View the Widget XML file).

I created an example page, with no formatting, to show you one way of doing this. (See example 1). In this example the html page simply takes the data and applies it to a table. To see how it is done, view the source.  No coding involved here.

Control	Description

I will try and post a Javascript example in the next day or so.

To see a JavaScript version in operation you can check out example2. This eample may only work in IE. There is some adjustments that can be made to the call for the XMLDom to make it work in FireFox.

It is only the function that is called. Place it in the head tags of your html page. Then call loadXML() fom the body of your document. Thjis eaxmple code builds a table like above.

<script language="JavaScript"> function loadXML() { // get XML object var xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); xmlDoc.async="false"; xmlDoc.load("aquastatus.xml"); // get the XML root item var root = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('AquaStatus')[0]; var items = root.getElementsByTagName("item"); for (var i = 0 ; i < items.length ; i++) { // get one item after another var item = items[i]; // now we have the item object, time to get the contents // get the name of the item var title = item.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstChild.nodeValue; // get the quantity var description = item.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].firstChild.nodeValue; document.write(""); document.write(""); document.write(""); document.write(""); } document.write("

item #" + i + ": name=" + title + " value=" + description + "

"); } </script>

Hope that helps everyone have a little understanding on how they can use the XML output from the Widget and Signature Generator.

1. Turn off all IP devices except the AC, DSL Modem, router, and a workstation.
   1. If you have a hub instead of the router, better yet (testing only).
   2. If a router is being used, turn off firewall and NAT if enabled.
   3. I am assuming that no other security is enabled (MAC or port filtering)
2. Once you can reach the internet go to http://probe.hackerwatch.org/probe/probe.asp to see what ports your ISP is allowing to your IP address. Port 80 & 25 are most likely blocked.
3. Next double check your IP address using http://ip-lookup.net/ . This should be the IP address you are entering into IE to get to your AC.
4. This will tell us our IP address and port that we will connect on.
   1. example  http://65.115.236.10:8080 /cgi-bin/status.cgi will render the home page of the AC unit.

can you call me?  I have questions.

626-358-4840

thanks

I think I have all the ip items off except the onces listed.

What is the difference betwen a router and a hub?  I have the Belkin Router, it has 4 ports and wireless, it is the FD7230-4, (I think) I have been asking about NAT.  I think I recall seeing it onthe DSL modem, and I think that If I turn it off, I lose internet connection.

I am p[retty sure all the firewall stuff is turned off.  I will double check.  I will goto the hackerwatch site, but I have used th shiledsup from the site GRC.com and got results that all the ports were closed except for port 80,21, and 23.  Not sure if closed means blocked or what, but seems funny that you suggest port 80 should be blocked but that site showed it open...

I will check out thehackerwatch site shortly after I check all the other things first

Thanks

Bill 

Hello,  I ahve now switched to Time warner service.  Cable modem.

I did all you suggested, prior to the switch and I got everythign back the same as before, no open ports.

I tried to turn off the NATand lost internet connection.

I tried to run the hackerwatch utility and came back wth all ports stealth or closed.

I tried running the hackerwatch on the new cable internet and port 80 seems open and ready to recieve incoming requests. 
Not sure what that means, as you suggested it would be closed...

It is the only one that is open.

I will try to turn NAT off now that I have cable modem and see what happens.

Bill