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Re: Ocelot or Homeseer ?


  • Subject: Re: Ocelot or Homeseer ?
  • From: "egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:49:16 -0000

thx everybody for all replies. I think I'll go for the Ocelot since
it has less moving parts....+ it'll be a new toy to play with ;-)
rgds Rob

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Nigel Giddings" <nigel@c...> wrote:
> Sorry but I had to put in my 2p worth...
>
> My Homeseer PC which is running a few Lights via X-10 and relays
> (SOM1)as well as heating control (Temp05 and Relay05) has now been
up
> for 259 Days 1 Hour 9 Minutes 43 Seconds. The last reboot was for a
> change of IP address... Yes its Win98se... It does have a UPS and
yes we
> have had a couple of power glitches in that time.
>
> I also have another instance of Homeseer running on a Win2K machine,
> this has been rebooted a few more times to patch the Operating
> System.....
>
> Nigel, a very happy homeseer user...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alanmiddleton74 [mailto:yahoo@a...]
> Sent: 04 July 2005 19:35
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Ocelot or Homeseer ?
>
>
> Not much to add beyond the points you've already listed but...
>
> I can't comment specifically on homeseer but my reasoning for going
to
> an ocelot as opposed to a pc based solution was reliability. In the
year
> it ran I never had to reboot the ocelot... if only x10 was as
reliable
> ;) I'm hoping to get similar reliability once I wire it back up
again
> and add the leopard screen.
>
> ------oooo0oooo-------
> 4/7/2005





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