Re: MSN Messanger as home control interface anyone?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Hmmm.. good point.

However, MSN Messanger does have the ability to allow/deny people to see
when it's online & communicate with it doesn't it? - if anyone wanted
to
communicate with my HA servers' messanger service, they'd have to add it to
their list of contacts, - when they do that, a pop-up comes up on my HA
server saying "so-and-so (sic) has added you to their contacts, do you
want
to allow them to communicate with you?" - I then have the option to
allow or
deny them, - as I understand it, they cannot actually see my status or
start
a conversation unless and untill I "allow" them to from my end...
So all I
should have to do (in theory), is just reply "deny" to any such
requests
that occur, then no-one but me can actually converse with the server...

That is of course, presuming I understand it correctly...

Paul G.





>From: "Andy Laurence" <andylaurence@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MSN Messanger as home control interface anyone?
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:51:48 -0000
>
> > Now I know you could say why use IM when you could just use the
Homeseer
>web
> > interface, but personally, I think this would be pretty cool! -
any
> > comments/thoughts/ideas?
>
>How about security?  Anyone could IM your server, type HELP and be
turning
>off your security systems.  Also, you need to install IM on every
machine
>in
>the world you use for control.  Most PCs on the Internet have a
browser, so
>the web interface sounds a better solution.  It would be one hell of a
lot
>quicker though.
>
>Andy
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