RE: Autom8it nolonger free?

["Dean Smith" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

I'm personally a HomeSeer user. But that is now $150 for a 1.6 licence and
$xx for additional plug-ins. e.g.

Official HomeSeer Media Player plug-in = Price: $29.95
3rd Party plug-in for Messenger/Outlook etc are now between $20 and $30
each.

It all starts to add-up for new users. Almost all plug-ins need some
additional scripting to actually leverage their full potential.

My fear is that people who buy $200 S/W are less likely to accept the
additonal effort required to make it work and then contribute stuff back
in.
HomeSeer (and I assume AutoM8it) offer little (imho) as raw X10 scheduling
interfaces. They only come alive when *all* your harwdare/software can
interact.

Deano


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:p-gale@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 April 2003 22:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Autom8it nolonger free?


mmm... £60 for the full licence - I also thought it was an ongoing free app
:-((



Not good!



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Calum Morrell [mailto:calum@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 April 2003 20:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Autom8it nolonger free?



UKHA wrote:
> Do my eyes deceive me? Does autom8it now cost beer tokens? I've been
recommending it to people who want to dip their toes in the waters of HA,
and as it was free it meant no investment...
>
> disappointed of Holland,

No longer free? FFS, I only downloaded some components last week and
there was certainly no mention that it was going to be charged for!!

Looks like Homeseer will be getting my business after all. I was willing
to support Autom8it and offer help in the near future, but it's nowhere
near ready as a production system for even my moderatley basic needs.

Off to uninstall a certain package from my system.

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Calum Morrell
www.drochaid.org