Re: Comfort vs Ordinary alarms [was RE: Lots of Thank-You's...]

["PatrickLidstone" <patrickl@xxxxxxx>]

> All fair points Patrick.  Although I think it's worth pointing
out 
that off
> all the Comfort users at the meeting you were the only one who said
you
> wouldn't buy it again.

Agreed, I know there is a huge base of happy users, and I don't want 
to harm Andrew's market. To reiterate the point, it's not that 
comfort is a "bad" or "flawed" system, it's just that
I've outgrown 
it in the sense that it isn't sophisticated enough on it's own to 
meet _my_ requirements. Once you supplement it with other kit, you 
end up with duplication of function.

> Comfort is much more than a an alarm with a serial interface
too.  
It has
> lots of other features over and above a "standard" alarm
like 2-way 
IR,
> Digital Voice Mail boxes, Telephone control from anywhere in the 
world,
> Doorphone to Mobile forwarding etc.

True. Comfort is a complete winner from this respect in environments 
where there is only a single analogue phone line and, to a lesser 
degree, situations where there is no broadband access. If I was 
starting again, I'd probably opt for ISDN2e with a digital PBX and 
TAPI interface. These will do doorphone type things and a lot more 
besides, including sexy stuff like being able to display any 
arbitrary text on the LCD's of individual phones, name lookup on 
caller id, selective routing based on calling number and so on.

As ever, all IMO...

Patrick

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