Re: New devices, new users

["John B" <home-automation@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

> Being an xpl newbie myself, I would welcome:
> 1) A definite (but ever-growing ;-) list of xpl'ed devices.
> 2) An introduction per device: what can it do for you, how does it do
> it, etc.  Take for example xplRioNet.  From Tony's website, the readme
> file and the messages that go around in the group I can still not
> deduct what it exactly could do for me...  It lacks the commercial
> talk :-)  Should I ask a Rio/Exstreamer/SliMP3 for Christmas ?  If I
> got one I would start experimenting to see what the possibilities are.
>  Normally if you buy a product you know what it will do and what you
> may expect.  I admit that the experimenting is a big part of the fun
> of HA...  Yet if you want to lurk more people into it, I think more
> high-level, almost "commercial" documentation could help.

I think this is a great idea.

We could do with a list of every known device/application that has xPL
support on the main xplproject.org.uk site.

Regards,

John