RE: HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Nigel - I'll see how I get on.

Paul.



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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Nigel Giddings
> Sent: 24 June 2006 11:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?
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> Paul,
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> I have been using Homeseer for years now so it is difficult to
remember
> accurately, but I would say it is quite straightforward...
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> 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...
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> What makes homeseer fly is getting it to talk with i/p and o/p stuff
but
> then 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
> interfacing. Xap support opens up many more possibilities as well.
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> It does have 'touchpad' as part of it which gives a reasonable GUI
> optimized for touch screens (not as good as Mainlobby) as well as its
> internal web pages for displaying status, events and plug-ins. One
nice
> thing with V2.x 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
scrap=
e
> type software.
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> It's worth spending some time on it. Maybe someone who has looked at
(and
> used) Homeseer and then rejected it could be a bit more objective. Not
> sure there are many people who have given up on it though...
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> Nigel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 June 2006 11:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA control - MainLobby / HomeSeer?
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> Does it take long to get the hang of HomeSeer?
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> Never really got into it when I tried it before.
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> Paul.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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?
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > I personally think Homeseer is a great product and would be an
ideal
> > middleware solution.
> >
> > You can download Homeseer for a 1 month trial (fully functional)
and
> there
> > is a lot of info on intergrating Homeseer / MainLobby on the
Homeseer
> > forum.
> >
> > I've not played with MainLobby, Xlobby is more my price range but
> doesn't
> > have the Homeseer integration (yet??)
> >
> > Nigel
> >
> > -----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?
> >
> > After visiting CEDIA last week =96 has spurred me into getting a
proper=
,
> > really good looking HA interface going.
> >
> > I bought MainLobby a while ago but haven=92t used it in a while
=96 but
> still
> > think this is maybe a good solution. The question is how to
integrate i=
t
> > with everything else (HomeVision, Comfort, xAP apps etc). Seems
that
> > HomeSeer might be a good =91middle=92 controller/interface?
> >
> > Anyone got HomeSeer / Comfort / HomeVision / MainLobby working
together=
?
> > (or a sub-set?). Any good?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
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