Re: My Latest Cool DIY Automation FACT

["IVB" <ivb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did some performance testing/optimization of my PPC skins so I can get this
to be a highly usable system. Can't do a heckuva lot here at home, as I get
crappy cellphone coverage inside the house [all the plaster/lathe kills
cellphone signals].  Pretty remarkable how much space even small images take
up, though. I was able to cut download time of the first page I tried from
17 seconds to <3 seconds, and more impressively the 2nd one from 79 seconds
to 11 seconds!

CAVEAT: This is a sample set of 1 run, in my current location with the crap
cellphone coverage. I'm going to try again tomorrow if that pesky work thing
doesn't get in my way.

To load this page via the DotNetViewer over Cingular/EDGE via my dynamic DNS
took 17 seconds. If I've calculated correctly, and if 5 copies of the same
10K image means 50K of bandwidth, then this page is about 70K. That
generally squares up with the 5-10Kbps I was seeing over EDGE, if you
consider the signal in my house is greatly impacted and no cellphones
usually work.
http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Home.jpg

To load this page with no images took just under 3 seconds. There's no
images, so it's about 2K. [just the size of the template]
http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Home_Text.jpg

Then we get truly dramatic.
To load this page took 79 seconds. I believe this page is about 125K.
http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Motion.jpg

Cutting out all the images, bringing it down to about 5K took 11 seconds. I
had to add a TON of state-based rules processing in order to show/hide text
fields, I may see if there's another option there which would likely cut
that time further.
http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Motion_Text.jpg

I'll keep plugging away. Hopefully I can get everyone working in the <7
second timeframe, which would make this thing dang usable.



"IVB" <ivb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a Cingular 8125 PDA cellphone that I got primarily for work
>purposes, but secondarily to control/monitor the house while I'm away.  Had
>some RAGING success yesterday, chalk this ability up as a fact.
>
> Wife & I had a last minute out-of-town trip to Napa Valley as wife's folks
> were willing to watch kids. I already had Security & HVAC control setup
> via the PDA [monitor motion sensors, check security system, adjust HVAC
> while we're not in the house]. I added some A/V screens so I could control
> the A/V equipment and start DVDs, as they constantly struggle with
> anything remotely technical, especially if they're trying to watch the
> kids at the same time.
>
> Here's the latest set of interfaces I made for it, had some pretty good
> luck with them. That said, I'm going to create a high-bandwidth set and
> low-bandwidth set and create a new top-level menu having you pick one or
> the other, as I only got 5-10kbps over Cingular's EDGE network while in
> Napa yesterday, and some of these are nearly 200K. They were fine from the
> coffee shops with free wifi, but about 40 seconds per page load time from
> the movie theater.  I kicked off a DVD for the inlaws so they didn't have
> to deal with anything other than turning TV on. Considering that I won't
> use this that often, 20 seconds is "ok", but i'd like to see if I can at
> least create security ones that load within 5-7 seconds.
>
> Obviously these need some serious GUI work - the napa trip was a total
> last minute thing, so the A/V ones are what I whipped together in <60
> minutes.
>
> BTW, these use CQC's DotNetViewer which directly hits the CQC XML Gateway
> server in my house, so I don't need logmein.com, and so no unnecessary
> software or security holes.
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Home.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_AVEquipment.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_AVSources.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_DVD.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_XM.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Elk.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_Motion.jpg
>
> http://www.myhometheaterpc.com/screenshots/PPC/PPC_HVAC.jpg
>
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