RE: Homeseer on a mac...finally

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds interesting :)

Who would have thought... Windows and OSX running together on the Mac!!! 
;)

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> jeyellok
> Sent: 17 January 2007 12:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Homeseer on a mac...finally
>
> Been a bit of a lurker for many years on the forum. With others help
and
> the passage of
> time i automated most lights and my central heating system which i
simply
> love living with
> and is controlled by Homeseer. Early in 2005 i bought a Mac mini to
> experiment with.
> Without getting into an argey-bargey (not in my dictionerey!) over
windows
> vs. mac i loved
> OS X and its brilliant power to parentally control my youngsters email
and
> web habbits -
> and it never crashed. The experience made me want to move more of my
> 'life' onto the
> mac. Since then i've bought more Apple hardware including an
intel-powered
> laptop.
>
> The point of this post was i could not never find equivalent
Automation
> packages to match
> Homeseer or Ambient's Virtual Weather Station that ran on the mac.
Even
> Microsofts
> Windows emulator, Virtual PC was useless. Recently a company called
> Parallels released an
> app that allows you to run Windows alongside OS X seamlessly. Using
its
> new 'coherence'
> mode, the MS taskbar sits on the bottom of the screen alongside the OS
X
> dock. MS
> windows and OS X windows play so nicely together in the same way its
> simply freaky to
> see in action. I started with a ZX81 and now have a beard so i'm not
> freaked easliy!
>
> Bottom line is homeseer and my Weather station apps work on my Apple
> laptop flawlessley
> (25hrs so far) with the steam-boiler PC switched-off and the relative
> silence is deafening. I
> am cheating because i'm still within windows for automation and
weather,
> but perhaps i
> now have the best of both worlds. I will add a mac logo to the outside
of
> the house beside
> the 'Intel inside' and 'Designed for MS Windows'
>
> I can post a more detailed write-up later if someone gives me a
pointer.
>
> Regards
> John
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