Re: Modifying MP3 tags for Rio/DDAR

["PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Ian Davidson" <ian@g...> wrote:
> Hi Gareth
>
> I wonder if you could let me know a little more about your set up
there. I
> ordered a comfort system on Friday ready for the new house and I'm
also
> thinking of changing from Misterhouse to homeseer, so any info on
the two
> working together would be appreciated.
>

I have a beta-quality homeseer plug-in for comfort. I'll be releasing
it as freeware once I'm happy with it. Allows monitoring of all
inputs (sensors, IR, analogue), control of all outputs (ports, IR,
analogue), as well as ability to set comfort to a given mode and
detect who logged in when and so on. Requires the UCM serial
interface though.

Before I wrote the plug-in, I used X-10 as the bridge between Comfort
and other systems, and before that a parallel IO card in parallel
with the Comfort sensors. X-10 is significantly slower than the other
approaches - too slow IMO for, say, turning lights on automatically
when you walk into a room. The delay with hardwired methods is
better. For flexibility, I've yet to find anything that beats the
Homeseer plugin. It would be easy enough to rework the Homeseer stuff
to work with MisterHouse I suppose.

Patrick