RE: HA control via web pages

["Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@xxxxxxx>]

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Wow, I guess I should go into sales :)

> 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
>
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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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