Re: Homeseer on a mac...finally

["Ho Yin Ng" <architect.hoyin@xxxxxxxxx>]

~Wow nice - thanks for introducing me to that!

I wonder how well it can run Autocad?

I might be buying a nice desktop mac soon if it can!

But is Homeseer very memory / CPU intensive?

Ho yin

On 17/01/07, Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi John, I must admit a quiet dual OS machine is very appealing .
Just
> wondering what are the features for communication between the Mac and
> Windows OS - I'm guessing you have shared disk directories and that
cut
> and paste work OK but is there anything more inbuilt to Parrallels ?
> Also thinking that you could use some form of IP communications
> between the two for realtime communication ... now if there was a HA
> protocol based on TCP or UDP that opens another possibility ;-)...
>
> Kevin
>
> jeyellok wrote:
> > 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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