Re: Upgrade HomeSeer to 2.0 ?

[MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Neat! Does that mean I'm absolved from disconnecting and mailing the Aprilaire
thermostats, DMX lighting controller, Slinke and so on ?? ;-) The idea of
foregoing HVAC, lights and music would be/is too suggestive of a disaster
situation ...

Remote Desktop Connection (RDC)/ Microsoft Terminal Server Client and Server
are standard with XP Pro and Server 2003 and allow the option of connecting
remote serial ports, so I don't see exactly why this couldn't be done with
Homeseer. A kludge to be sure.

One advantage of an IP-based serial hub is the ability to have failover of
hard-wired serial connections to a backup PC -- on site or remote.  A minor
advantage in most cases, but could be very useful in remote installations such
as a cabin or where the local folks are unwilling/unable to set things right.

... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.EControl.org

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:08:46 GMT, "Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message  <2gIWe.1255$7x4.783@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>I'm just finishing up support for a pure-software based solution that allows
>us to access serial ports at our customer's homes. So you'll just need to
>have CQC installed at the client side and that will allow us to connect to a
>device there and do development of serially based drivers. I think that this
>will make a big difference in our ability to support new devices since we
>don't have to have them sent here or buy them ourselves. The customer can
>just give us access to the serial port.
>
>We were initally going to use an IP based multi-port card, but they are
>somewhat expensive and we'd only have a limited number of them to send
>around. So I just said the heck with it and did a software based version.
>Our product is built on our own very extensive object framework, so
>abstracting a serial port was pretty straightforward. The driver development
>tools just allow you to enable access to a remote serial port server running
>at the customer's site, which they can run and enable when needed, and his
>ports show up as local ports to the driver development tools.
>
>We could already do IP based devices this way of course, I did the Sony
>Qualia driver like that, and it worked out quit well. But serial devices
>were always a problem. That's a hole that we've now closed. I'll be adding 4
>very useful new drivers over the next week using this new feature.
>
>Try that with Homeseer :-)
>
>-------------------------------------
>Dean Roddey
>Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
>www.charmedquark.com
>
>"Marc F Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:9udmi1hcrjdp4rl36tkkonedj7d00j1gbp@xxxxxxxxxx
>> The reason that Savoy pulled CyberHouse from the DIY market was the same
>> reason that they pulled it from the installer market and (I gather) the
>> reason
>> that Premise Systems was sold to Motorola and is in now limbo -- the
>> difficulty of supporting hardware from multiple vendors.
>>
>> This is a rough row to hoe ...
>>
>> Marc
>> Marc_F_Hult
>> www.ECOntrol.org
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:04:14 -0400, "Don" <kyham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message
>> <2ef2$432b3340$438d0cde$5461@xxxxxxxxxx>:
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