Re: Mini-ITX PC's a the future of HA (was Re: X-10 Mister House Motion sensor problems)

["Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are running CQC, then any devices under CQC's control, directly or
indirectly via the Elk or Omni, is available to any node on the network
running CQC. But, you don't need to install the whole product if you just
want to share out control of devices on node X, you can just install the
CQCServer component, which is the device driver manager bit. But, if you are
going to install anything on node X, you might as well also install some of
the client tools so that you can do CQC maintenance/configuration from that
node if you happen to be there.

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Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com

"Marc F Hult" <MFHult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:25:05 GMT, "Dean Roddey" <droddey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in message  <R4Njg.147689$F_3.6635@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Key here is to separate (at least some) of the hardware from the CPU's so
> that the hardware can be shared over the network. This adds real
> redundancy
> and smarts IME. (Dean will correct me, but CQ has some remote management
> advantages over other HA apps that are best/require that hardware be
> associated with the CPU running CQ.)
>
> ... Marc
> Marc_F_Hult
> www.EControl.org
>