Re: Re: Interface design choices?...

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

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>Paul,
>
>I'm 99.99999999999% sure that your ActiveX will not work on the
>EPODS - Sorry.


It was just a thought, and it was a useful excercise - I've never written
one before!


>
>Another thing to remember is that there were some reports of problems
>if you left the EPODS on for very long periods. I've tried (quite a
>while ago now) many things (e.g. WOL) to try to get it to wake up but
>to no avail.

Hmm.. there's no reason why I need to have it on 24/7 - only when I'm in
the
house, - at all other times it could be switched off. This could of course
be automated by Comfort... I have no problem with having to press the
"on"
button when I first walk into the bedroom.... (as long as I only have to do
it the once).


>
>Using Terminal server is really the simplest option for programming,
>any PC programming language would do (eg VB, VCC+, Perl etc) - you'd
>also be able to control other things very easily via Terminal
>services, like say, making your alarm clock an MP3 playing one etc.

Agreed, and this is what I shall do, but I'm not rushing into the upgrade
of
my MAIN server from NT4 to Windows 2000....

>
>I know it's quite a lot of money to buy Win2K but it will make your
>life sooooo much easier.

That's not the problem - I've already got copies of W2K server (actually,
I've got, or can get my hands on, Server, Advanced server, and Small
Businsess server 2000). No - the problem is (as ever) just one of time - I
am going to upgrade my main LAN server at home to 2000 as soon as I get the
time to do it. - I want to do it properly, with a roll-back plan etc...

>
>The connection drop is a problem (particularly for your alarm clock
>application)
>
>I do have one of my EPODS set up so that I don't need to log in to
>the terminal server at all...and I'm not sure about the
>answer...however it's not a problem unique to terminal server. If
>your application on the EPODS or PC crashes the effec is the same.


True, but then anything can break - even the X10 minitimer...


>
>"Sorry I'm late for work, my alarm clock crashed"
>

Can already happen! - the actual alarm is a Homeseer script that turns on
my
bedside light, and speaks several things (reads my appointments from my
Outlook calendar, reads the weather, etc...) The bedside controller is
planned to be a nice easy way of actually setting the alarm time (currently
it's a horrid cludgy way with the Dim/bright buttons with TTS feedback...),
and the actual clock display...

Epods don't have a "switch on by screen tap" feature like my Palm
III does
it?.....

Paul G.


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