RE: HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

I have been using Homeseer for years now so it is difficult to remember
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urately, but I would say it is quite straightforward...

I can't see someone with your experience / ability would have any
problems.=
.. It's just getting your head round the concept in the first place...

What makes homeseer fly is getting it to talk with i/p and o/p stuff but
th=
en it is middleware rather than a front end device. X10 is the obvious,
and=
was why Homeseer was created. But, I use VIOMs Temp05 and Relay05 for inte=
rfacing. Xap support opens up many more possibilities as well.=20

It does have 'touchpad' as part of it which gives a reasonable GUI
optimize=
d for touch screens (not as good as Mainlobby) as well as its internal web
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pages for displaying status, events and plug-ins. One nice thing with V2.x
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is that 99% of management can be done through a web interface so no need
to=
be at the server or connect via some screen scrape type software.

It's worth spending some time on it. Maybe someone who has looked at (and
u=
sed) Homeseer and then rejected it could be a bit more objective. Not sure
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there are many people who have given up on it though...

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 24 June 2006 11:18
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?

Does it take long to get the hang of HomeSeer?

Never really got into it when I tried it before.

Paul.

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Nigel Giddings
> Sent: 24 June 2006 11:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?
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> Paul,
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> I personally think Homeseer is a great product and would be an ideal
> middleware solution.
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> You can download Homeseer for a 1 month trial (fully functional) and
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e
> is a lot of info on intergrating Homeseer / MainLobby on the Homeseer
> forum.
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> I've not played with MainLobby, Xlobby is more my price range but
doesn't
> have the Homeseer integration (yet??)
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> Nigel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 June 2006 10:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?
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> After visiting CEDIA last week =96 has spurred me into getting a
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> really good looking HA interface going.
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> I bought MainLobby a while ago but haven=92t used it in a while =96
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till
> think this is maybe a good solution. The question is how to integrate
it
> with everything else (HomeVision, Comfort, xAP apps etc). Seems that
> HomeSeer might be a good =91middle=92 controller/interface?
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> Anyone got HomeSeer / Comfort / HomeVision / MainLobby working
together?
> (or a sub-set?). Any good?
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