The first hurtle was that a majority of the files had a “\”  (or was it “/”?) in it.  Since I am on a Unix platform, it appears that the os.listdir function wasn’t able to see those files, since I believe that’s a reserved character.  These files were originally  created on an OS/2 based computer…

So I ended up using NameChanger, and it is a utility that works well…  Especially since it’s free..  The major drawback that I saw with NameChanger is that it didn’t seem to refresh it’s list of files once they were renamed…  And it clears the Find / Replace (Original Text / New Text) fields after running.

But once that hurdle was cleared, I needed to add file extensions…  So, what does any programmer do in a case like this? Write an python application:

import os
import sys

filenames = os.listdir (".")
for filename in filenames:
    if filename.endswith ("html.txt"):
        new_filename = filename.replace (".txt", "")
        os.rename (filename, new_filename)

    (shortname, extension) = os.path.splitext (filename)
    if extension == "":
        new_filename = filename +".txt"
        os.rename (filename, new_filename)

Yes, this is a very single purpose application, but if someone finds it useful feel free to use this as a starting point.

The application will gather a list of files that are in the current directory, anything that has an “.html.txt” extension will be renamed to .txt.  If there is no file extension then an .txt extension will be added…

Why did I make this?  I have a directory that I use to gather usenet messages in, and quicklook wouldn’t work until I renamed them to .txt (or .jpg, etc).  Since this directory was 99% text files, I needed a fast and dirty way to rename them, thus the script above.

Feel free to make any suggestions or to propose better methods just leave them in the comments…

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Screen Example:

Device Name: Kitchen Task Lighting Icon
Description: None (N/A)
Address: 07.A0.B7
Device Type: ICON Appliance
Firmware: 2.8
Status: off
Last Updated: 2010-08-15


Device Name: Kitchen KeyPad
Description: None (N/A)
Address: 0B.49.F1
Device Type: KeypadLinc Relay
Firmware: 3.3
Status: on
Last Updated: 2010-08-15


Device Name: Bed Room Light
Description: None (N/A)
Address: 14.28.BF
Device Type: LampLinc
Firmware: 3.10
Status: 0%
Last Updated: 2010-08-15



CSV sample:

Device Name,Description,Addr,Device Type,Firmware,Status,Last updated
Kitchen Task Lighting Icon,None (N/A),07.A0.B7,ICON Appliance,2.8,off,2010-08-15
Kitchen KeyPad,None (N/A),0B.49.F1,KeypadLinc Relay,3.3,on,2010-08-15
Bed Room Light,None (N/A),14.28.BF,LampLinc,3.10,0%,2010-08-15
Master Bedroom Keylinc,None (N/A),0E.2B.08,KeypadLinc V2 Dimmer,2.13,0%,2010-08-15

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Here’s a blog entry with the python code…

Calculating Distance Between Latitude Longitude Pairs in Python

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Here’s the newest version of the Remote Log Viewer for Indigo. It fixes a issue that was exposed when running under a Snow Leopard OS. The current days log file would appear to have duplicate entries…

This was only a cosmetic issue, and has been fixed.

The download for the release is available here…Indigo Remote Log Viewer (1.54) Version - 1.54, Downloaded - 244 times

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Good Math, Bad Math : I Get Mail: Iterative Compression: “He’s invented a method where he can take a source document, and repeatedly compress it, making it smaller each time.

This is a stupid idea that I’ve seen entirely too many times. But instead of just making fun of it, I thought it would be interesting to explain in detail why it doesn’t work. It touches on a bunch of basic facts about how data compression works, and provides a nice excuse for me to write a bit about compression.”

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The application will display:

• Device Name
• Description
• X10 or Insteon Address
• The Device Type
• The Device’s Firmware level
• Status
• Last Modified Date

For example:

How about some feedback, and suggestions on what else you might want to see?

Indigo Remote Device Listing v1.05

Recent Changes so far:

• Added better error checking, and resolved some issues with Single Digit Firmware values

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• Publishing new post
• Editing old post
• Publishing draft post
• Deleting post
• Changing post categories
• Getting blog and user informations
• Upload multimedia files like movies or photos
• Getting last recents post
• Getting last post
• Getting Trackbacks of post
• Getting Pingbacks of post

Black Bird | Programmazione » Progetti » WordPress Library.

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The application will display:

* Device Name
* Description
* Insteon Address
* The Device Type
* The Device’s Firmware level

For example:

How about some feedback, and suggestions on what else you might want to see?

DeviceList_100.zip

Suggestions so far:

• Add Last Modified Time Stamp to the listing

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