RE: HomeSeer v2.0

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was a bit surprised to see the prices of all the plug-ins. Put me right
o=
ff :(

Paul.



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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Hawkins
> Sent: 14 September 2005 12:57
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HomeSeer v2.0
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>   The initial launch of HomeSeer 2 offers very little of benefit to
most
> people. It was a major step for HomeSeer though as it was a total
> rewrite in .Net , and they seem to have achieved a reasonable
> compatabilty. I think from here on in you're going to see the new
> features emerging in sucessive updates. However HS's upgrade policy
> isn't clear . With v1 all the updates within the major version number
> were free, so I for one had 5 years of updates. Recently however the
> plugins have been provided through the updater and are often
> individually chargeable and I feel there is a trend by HS and the
> other developers to try squeezing a little more money from the users.
I
> have updated
> though as an investment in what might come, $39.95 seems quite
> reasonable. We'll see how this pans out.
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> Surprisingly the new updater doesn't handle updates to the main
> application itself. If you liked the realtime device interface that HS
> used to have then I'm afraid you lose that to a web (refresh based)
> display . There is a general move to using HS as the HA 'service' and
it
> has enhanced threading capabilities now too. It certainly seems to run
> fast & more smoothly for my small setup. When it doesn't work it's
a
> pain though and some users with more complex older scripts are
battling
> a bit.
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> The xAP plugin is already available in a V2 compatible version , and
is
> still free, allowing all xAP devices to be reflected as HS devices and
> any HS device to be presented as a xAP device too - which is really
> useful as it expands the library of available devices to xAP and HS.
HS
> can thus be used as your logic/script engine for xAP, (alternatively
xAP
> Desktop and xAP FloorPlan both offer inbuilt scripting too and are
free)
> . HS can be front ended by MainLobby (with a commercial plugin) and by
> XLobby using the xAP Xlobby plugin (both free) getting you a realtime
> touchscreen interface to HS and xAP should you wish.
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> Kevin
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> Paul Gale wrote:
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> >I see that HS v2 has been released. Anyone using it yet?
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> >I=92m interested in the voice recognition and wondered how good it
is? D=
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> it use the MS VR engine or it=92s own? It also says it can work in
> independent mode =96 but how good is it?
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