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Comfort/Homeseer plugin


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Comfort/Homeseer plugin
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 20:13:12 +0000
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WOOHOO!!

Guess what I ordered yesterday?

Looking foward to this immensely Patrick....

Cheers.

Paul G.


>
>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
>




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