Re: Good HA ideas site - Comfort Web Interface

[andy.powell@xxxxxxx]

Andrew,

as other have said you can't just make up you own ip address unless you're
using an internat network that does not connect to the Internet.  However,
all is not lost... take a trip in your web browser to www.dyndns.com .
They will allow you to set up a url that will point to your current ip
address assigned by your isp. This is only of any use if you have a
permanent connection to the Internet via cable (possibly ADSL).

Cable operators tend to assign ip addresses fairly randomly so you'll need
to get one of the applications from dyndns that will run in your system
tray, detect when your ip address changes and notify dyndns automatically.


Alternatively... if you are using a dialup connection - go with Demon
Internet. They assign an adress to your account. I've been using the same
IP address for over 2 years now.

I'm assuming that Comfort is going to dial up either at specific times or
when there is a security breach - is that so? Otherwise unless you have a
permanent connection it'll be very difficult (if not impossible) to do
what you want..

Oooh there is one other option.. Each time you dial up you could get the
ip address assigned to you and then store it in a text file and transfer
the file to your web site... then when you wanted to talk to Comfort you
could examine the file remotely and connect directly to that ip address...


Hope this helps..







"Andrew Roberts" <andrew@xxxxxxx>
18/05/00 14:30
Please respond to ukha_d


To:     <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
cc:
Subject:        Re: [ukha_d] Good HA ideas site - Comfort Web Interface

Hi Andy,
Thanks for answering that question for me.
One thing we need to resolve is how to setup a static IP rather than the
existing dynamic address(which changes each time you log on) for enabling
people to use the same IP address each time? Would you know how to do
that?

Thanks

Andrew Roberts
Comfort Home Controls
====================
email: Andrew@xxxxxxx
www: http://www.comfort.org.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: <andy.powell@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:55 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Good HA ideas site - Comfort Web Interface


> Mark,
>
> Homeseer allows you to select the port for it to run on - by default
it's
> port 80. You can change it to any other port (make sure it's not a
port
> used by any other app). Then when you want to connect to the server
using
> a different port you go:
>
> for example
>
>  http://www.automatedhome.co.uk:99
>
> ie add a colon to the end of the url and then the port number you
> specified in the options dialog.
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "Mark McCall" <Mark@xxxxxxx>
> 19/05/00 13:44
> Please respond to ukha_d
>
>
>         To:     <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        RE: [ukha_d] Good HA ideas site - Comfort Web
Interface
>
>   >Here is a pre-release article due in June on the hometoys site
for
the
>   >Comfort Web InterfACE.
>   >http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/jun00/articles/comfort/comfort.htm
>
> Sound/looks great Andy!!
>
> Can the Microsoft Personal Server run along with the HomeSeer web
server
> or
> can you only have one web server running at a time on a PC?
>
> Thanks
>
> M.
>
>
>
>
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