RE: Home Automation Software

["Nikola Kasic" <nikola@xxxxxxx>]

I thought that plug-ins were developed mostly by community (individual
users), so I don't understand how they can charge for something that
they didn't develop.
But I might be wrong.
Maybe it's not a bad idea to have a business model, where framework will
be chargable, and plugins not (depending on developer). That would
encourage individuals to develop plug-ins (either for free, or for
money), as long as framework has reasonable (cheap) price.
Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Stuhler [mailto:julian.stuhler@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 April 2003 17:38
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Automation Software


Hi Michael.

The Gold licence gives you the A8 Framework plus all of the available
plug-ins. The alternative is to buy the basic edition (Framework + X10
plug-in only) and then pay separately for each additional plug in you
want to buy. I'm not sure if Jim has settled on the price for the
plug-ins yet (they are still (just about) in beta and therefore a free
download) but even assuming they are only going to be a tenner each it
won't take many to make the Gold licence a bargain.

As I said, the UI side is really subjective so I suggest you take a look
at both and see what works best for you. A8 tends to use larger more
intuitive and colourful icons in both the app and web interfaces, but as
usual I suspect it really comes down to what you're used to. SWMBO finds
the A8 X10 control panel particularly easy to use as it displays the
device name as a confirmation that you're about to turn on/off the right
thing!

regards,

Julian

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Mc Aree [mailto:michael.mcaree@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 30 April 2003 16:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Home Automation Software



Thanks for that Julian,

A few quick questions -
What does the GOLD option get me?
UI - I though they were similar - how different are they? I find Homseer
easy enough to use but SWMBO doesn't - might be worth giving A8 a go. If
I dies she says all the HA stuff will have to go in the bin!

Michael