RE: HA control via web pages

["Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@xxxxxxx>]

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First, I am one of the developers of the Comfort Web Interface (CWI).  But,
I will try to remain objective.

I think that Comfort and its web interface will be what you want if you are
going to buy Comfort.  I say this because CWI is built on ACE (a home
automation program I wrote) and the web pages all use ASP.  ACE supports HV
and Comfort (I have both in my house).  The CWI web pages are all wide open
for you to see and modify the html or asp as you see fit.  They allow for
sending commands to ACE and displaying info from ACE.  This means you can
easily build a web page to display Comfort status info, HV status info, and
to send commands to either HV or Comfort.  ACE has a large number of API
commands which you can also execute from a web page.

I am glad to go into more detail if desired.  Since you said you liked ASP
and IIS I think the CWI pages would be a good fit.

Dan



> I have started playing with my HomeVision and it is great, but being a
web
> designer I want to go a stage further and build a 'home control'
> site using
> asp. I have seen people talking about Homeseer in this context and
that
> certainly seems interesting, however it requires a CM12U as far as I
can
> tell. I do have plans to get the Comfort System in the near future
along
> with it's web interface, but there have been suggestions here
> that it is not
> so good at home control.
>
> So the question is, if I have HomeVision and Comfort but want to
> control my
> X10 devices with web pages written in ASP (running on IIS) do I need
to
> shell out for Homeseer and a CM12U or is there another alternative.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
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