Re: PC solution like Crestron

["Robert Green" <robert_green1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

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<<You should give HouseBot a look. www.housebot.com  It's extremely
versitale but cheap. It has something called a "software remote" which
is can be implemented on a bunch of windows based touch screen
devices. It has a somewhat steep learning curve but once you get the
hang of it it's incredibly versitale.>>

Looks very interesting.  Have you used it for long?

It has a 30 day trial and a reasonable cost ($69.00!) and an interesting
corporate philosophy of supporting machines as old as WIN95 and small
devices like the Pocket PC and things running Windows mobile. I've got a
gaggle of touch screen tablet PCs running at 400MHz that would have great
potential with a system like that.  In fact it appears to support a lot of
the HA HW I own, which is a very big plus.  Even supports the ADI line of
equipment, but not HomeVision, it seems, which is too bad, IMHO, as I feel
HomeVision is a much better product.  Plus, HV's designer is still quite
active in the HV support group.  The last time I checked on ADI's site, it
had pretty much died the same slow death this newsgroup has. I imagine it
can support HV via RS-232, though, as it seems to be pretty strong in that
area.  Just DL'ed the 22MB demo and will soon load it on a test PC to see
how it goes.

One thing that spooked me was this item on the sales page because I am not
even sure what they are talking about when they offer this item:

Extended Download Warranty This product is eligible for our Extended
Download Warranty, for an additional cost ($4.95 per year) we'll keep a
back-up copy of your digital files should you need to re-download them for
any reason.

Another problem is no Paypal.  )-:  Well, nobody's prefect.

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Bobby G.