Re: Fw: Thought of the day : HA with a Pocket PC ?

["Alistair Watkins" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

I'd advise against bluetooth for the connection,

I looked at this as I have an bluetooth IPAQ as well as my Wifi jornada..
apart from the jornada being a bit flatter and thinner, making it nicer on
the wall, the problems of the speed of the bluetooth was a problem, even
with just the few graphics i use on my prototype system to mount it in a
landscape way...
will continue to play with PocketPC VB and see what that throws up, but
one of my requirements is screen images that are big enough to tap without
aiming to much, last thing you want is to come home from the pub and not
be able to turn the lights on, or worse still turn the hifi on full blast!

ali

Gareth Cook said:
> I see the perfect solution as a cheap touch screen pocket-pc with a
> browser, wall mounted (landscape) with a wifi card or built in wifi
(or
> bluetooth).
>
> Got to be a winner. The only stumbling block will be an effective UI
for
> whatever system you are using. Even I failed miserably to get a basic
> HomeSeer webpage working (forgetting the built in defaults - too much
> info).
>
> Mark - need a promo picture of a pocket pc such as this on a wall for
the
> site :-)
>
> G.
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> Nice idea, sounds very Star Trek to me. Add a flip
> open lid and crackly speech synthesis and you've got
> your very own Tricorder.
>
> TV control
> Lighting control
> Heating control
> Temperature monitoring
> Telephone logs.
> Listening to answering machine recordings
> Web browsing
> Music/Video selection
> 'Beam me up Scotty' facility
>
> All using a back end database for storage and xAp/xPl
> for communication.
>
> Could be quite useful :)
>
> Regards
> Simon Kennedy
>
>  --- Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Curious -
> does anyone use a Pocket PC , say mounted
>> to a wall, which has a
>> web browser to either monitor/control HA ?
>>
>> Seems to be a easy way into touch screen wall
>> mounted control...
>>
>> G.
>>
>>  Gareth Cook
>>  SWG EMEA North Account Manager
>>  IBM SWG - BTE Office - Lotus Park, Staines, TW18
>> 3AG
>>  Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980
>> 445166
>>  AIM Chat : TheBoyG - MSN Chat : chat@xxxxxxx
>>  email: g@xxxxxxx
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