Re: HA control via web pages

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

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Sounds like I need to get that order in with Andy sooner rather than later
;-)

Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 6:31 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA control via web pages


>
> 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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