RE: Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?

["Broadfoot, Kieran J" <Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx>]

I think my other posts this morning should cover this but I agree we do
need
complete intergration with current systems which is why it might be prudent
to use te KISS principle to start with.  I quite like the idea of
publishing
the API and letting people implement it however you want.  X10 did this and
now there are quite a few ways of controlling x10 modules.  Talkng of which
I might have a look at the modules I got on thursday.  What to control
first? ;-)

Mr Gordon:  before I forget .. thanks again for picking them up for me!  v.
much appreciated

k.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr John Tankard [mailto:john@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:42 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Kieran's comments was Last Night in London?

I think we must also allow interface to other hardware controlers,
HV, Comfort. The reason I say this is you have to get people to trust
a PC, not easy (had to reset my W2K yesterday) I have never had a
problem with HV. Actualy I have just reset a Novell 5 server today
(uptime 602 days). The point I am making is its a bit of a leap of
faith to trust your house to a PC. I like the idea of the level of
control we can accheive with it but the house must not crash if the
PC's hard disk packs up. I know we could have two PC's but I dont
think we would sell the idea.

I fully agree with this, but what is the answer, we could make a
complete system, but there is a lot of work in this.

We could look at the main systems and try and intergrate them into
our devices.



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