Re: HomeSeer vs. HAL 2000

[Ross <idont@xxxxxxxx>]

Rapp,

I followed your thread on the homeseer board, while you had some inital
setup problems, it seems Rick was responding withing a day or 2 to your
queries. As far as I can see, you didn't have any outstanding issue?

Ross.

(homeseer and op2 user)..


L. M. Rappaport wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:37:10 -0400, "Kenneth Murphy"
> <murphy.laurie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (with possible editing):
>
>
>>Everyone seems to be talking about HomeSeer.
>>
>>How does it compare to HAL 2000?
>>
>>I am interested in motion detected digital video recording.
>>
>>Also, I would like to be able to ask for the weather and have it read to me.
>>
>>It seems like HAL can do this out of the box, but HomeSeer would take some
>>extra modules?
>>
>>Thanks for any reviews.........KM
>
>
> I can't do a side by side comparison, which is what you're looking
> for, but I can tell you that HomeSeer support is somewhat lacking.  We
> were considering becoming a dealer for them and ordered the upgrade to
> 1.7 for which we paid retail.  Then we ordered the HAI OmniPro module
> as we have installed quite a few of them.  It did not work out of the
> box.  I'm doing the testing.  I have tried to connect it to an HAI OP2
> with several expansion cabinets.  While I can access the zones, I
> cannot access the flags, so I'm better off doing all my programming
> with the OP2.  HomeSeer has stopped responding to our email which has
> been polite.
>
> They also have an online forum.  I posted several questions there as
> well, but there was nobody there with sufficient knowledge of the OP2.
>
> No flame - just the facts.
> --
>
> Larry
> Email to rapp at lmr dot com
>