FW: Incredible Trade-In Offer

["Stuart Billinghurst" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

Just seen this in my inbox..thought it may be of interest to those not
spammed by homeseer...

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From: Special Offer on HomeSeer for HAL Users
[mailto:HAL_Trade@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 May 2003 19:09
To: HAL_Trade@xxxxxxx
Subject: Incredible Trade-In Offer



Attention HAL Users!    Special Offer from:





a.. Tired of waiting years for HAL to add new features to
their software?

b.. Want to use a better speech recognition engine or another
text-to-speech engine?

c.. Wouldn't it be great to be able to download your kid's
school lunch menu, information from your employer's website, or the latest
PGA golf scores and have it spoken to you instead of just the Internet
services HAL provides?

d.. Want to control your home from the Internet and view
detailed information in addition to being able to get it over the phone?

Wish no more!


HomeSeer Technologies is proud to be able to offer HAL users
with a fantastic trade-in offer to move to HomeSeer! Please Don't delay as
this offer expires in 30 days!!

With 7,000 users and 6,800 registered users on the HomeSeer
message board, HomeSeer is the most popular home automation software
available today!

HomeSeer users share scripts, tips, and tricks to get the most
out of their HomeSeer, and you should be a part of that experience too.

HomeSeer supports the same hardware as HAL products either
directly or through software plug-ins - even the HAL PCI modem works with
HomeSeer!  If you have a piece of hardware or a software system that you
always wanted to be a part of your home automation setup, then trade-in
your
HAL for HomeSeer today and take advantage of HomeSeer's powerful tools for
automating almost anything in your home.  HomeSeer is Microsoft Speech-API
compatible, so you can use any SAPI 5.0/5.1 compliant Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) engine or Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.  You could even
use
Scansoft's updated ASR_3200 speech recognition with HomeSeer.  Want to use
the AT&T voices or Elan TTS with HomeSeer but not have to buy them from
HomeSeer? -- No problem!  HomeSeer does not change the way the AT&T
voices
are installed from AT&T to force you into buying them from HomeSeer -
use
AT&T's voices, Scansoft's RealSpeak (formerly Lernout & Hauspie's
RealSpeak), or any other Text-to-Speech engine.

a.. HomeSeer has a built in web server that gives you FULL
control over everything in your house from any web browser anywhere in the
world.  You'll not only be able to view the realtime status of things in
your home, but you can make changes to your HomeSeer automation events too!
Active Server Page (ASP) support means also having the power to do complex
scripting functions and make your home pages really come alive!

b.. HomeSeer's Applied Digital Ocelot interface supports the
Bobcat modules, system variables, and infrared matching.

c.. HomeSeer's plugin for the HAI and OnQ systems supports
Zone analog values, Buttons, User Codes, Auxiliary Temperature Sensors, and
a scripting interface for you to do so much more.

d.. HomeSeer's Media Player plugin supports all the same media
formats and voice recognition capabilities as HAL's DMC, but it doesn't
require playlists to be built ahead of time and has automatic playlists
such
as "Favorites - Have not heard recently", "Favorites -
Listen to at night"
and "Fresh tracks - yet to be played".  View what is playing, and
the album
cover art in your web browser.  Use Internet radio stations in your
playlist
to hear streaming audio instead of just the music already downloaded to
your
hard drive.

e.. HomeSeer Phone gives you the power to have HomeSeer call
you on your cell phone to let you know about important events in your home.
You can create a custom menu for callers, use it to call all of the kids
that your child wants to invite to their birthday party, and you can even
set up an option just for the people invited to the party to RSVP using
touchtones.  Tell HomeSeer Phone what to speak when you call from your cell
phone so the family doesn't have to hear your first and last name and
telephone number, and let it announce "Grandma Jones is Calling from
her
home phone" instead of "Telephone call from Josephine Jones at
603-555-1234".

f.. For advanced users, feel free to use VBScript, JavaScript,
or Active Server Pages to bring true programmatic capabilities to your home
automation system.

g.. 3rd Party plugins written by other HomeSeer users and
software developers extend HomeSeer's power even further...

a.. Control your house or receive information about your
house through MSN Messenger.
b.. Launch automation events just by creating an appointment
in Microsoft Outlook.
c.. Create complex automation events using your Lightolier
Compose switches.
d.. Send RF commands from your X-10 handheld or wall-mounted
remote controls right into HomeSeer instead of using the powerline.
e.. Control your video camera from your web browser.
f.. Take advantage of incredible devices for automating and
monitoring your home based upon the Dallas Semiconductor 1-Wire technology.
g.. Have HomeSeer popup information messages on other
computers in the home or your computer at work.
h.. Get reminders of when your favorite TV shows are on even
if the time or channel for the show changes, and get TV listings in Canada,
the UK, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
i.. Find out what movies are playing at the theatres and
find the movie you want to watch at the time you want to watch it and let
the user created Movies system tell you which theatre it is at.
j.. Are you a developer or weekend programmer?  HomeSeer's
Application Provider program can even help you sell your HomeSeer Plugin or
Script to the vast HomeSeer user community so you can have extra income to
buy more home automation equipment!  What could be better?

h..    ... and so much more!

Act Now!  Don't delay as this offer expires in 30 days!!

Reply to this email to take advantage of these super deals.
Here are the trade-in prices available exclusively to HAL software owners:
a.. If you currently own HAL2000, trade it in on a HomeSeer
and HomeSeer Phone bundle for only $159.00!  That's a savings of 20% from
the retail price!  (HAI/OnQ Support is provided through a separate plugin)

b.. If you currently own HAL Deluxe, trade it in for HomeSeer
for only $120.00 or the HomeSeer-HomeSeer Phone bundle for $159.00!

c.. Need support for your HAI or OnQ system?  Get the HAI/OnQ
plugin for only $32.00.

d.. Replace HAL's DMC with the HomeSeer Media Player Plugin
for $24.00.

e.. Want to keep your HAL Voices?  Get the real AT&T voices
for $48.00 - don't continue to suffer with the poor quality of 8KHz voices
-
this price includes the 8KHz voices AND the 16KHz voices.  How many
frequencies come with the voices with HAL?  Installation of these voices
uses the standard Speech-API compatible installer that the original voices
come with, so you can use these voices with other voice-enabled
applications
or the Speech-API applications that come with the Windows XP operating
system.
Even if you bought everything you see here, the total price is
still less than a single copy of HAL2000!  These prices reflect an
incredible 20% off HomeSeer's retail prices on everything you need to
replace HAL2000!

But wait, there's more!  Here is our best offer yet... Purchase
HomeSeer, HomeSeer Phone, and the HomeSeer Media Player Plug-In, and you'll
get a whopping 25% off!  That's right, all three with a retail value of
$229.85 for only $175.00!!!


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Reply to this email with the following information and we will
send you a code to be used at the HomeSeer Store to purchases HomeSeer
products at these fantastic prices:
a.. Your name.
b.. Your HAL Product Key (Printed on the CD sleeve with
HAL2000, printed on an envelope with HAL Basic and HAL Deluxe).
c.. Your Computer Number and Serial Number from the "About"
screen of your HAL product.
d.. Your Registration code if your HAL software is currently
registered or your HAL Unregistration code if you have unregistered your
HAL
software already.

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