Re: HomeSeer Pro-100 is not a mini-ITX ;-) Re: Mini-ITX PC's a the future of HA (was Re: X-10 Mister House Motion sensor problems)

[Mort <mort@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc_F_Hult wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:41:18 -0800, Mort<mort@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
> <ij2443$8fi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Marc_F_Hult wrote:
>>>
>>> Home automation hardware continues to shrink in cost, size and power
>>> requirements even as software and interfaces increase in function and
>>> ease-of-use.
>>>
>>> HomeSeer's latest hardware platform is in the form of a wall-wart,
> not much bigger than a mouse.
>>>
>>>
> http://www.cocoontech.com/portal/articles/news/42-events/402-ces-2011-exclusive-update-homeseer-technologies
>>>
>>> The HomeTroller-Mini runs HomeSeer home automation software using
>>> Mono on top of Linux on a 1ghz processor. It will reportedly sell,
>>> with installed OS and HS software, for less than $300 beginning Q2 2011.
>>>
>>> Web enabled, it can be controlled and viewed from any web-connected
>>> computer, but small devices such as cell phones and pads of various
>>> stripes are fast becoming the interfaces of choice in many situations.
>>
>> That's a fact. I no longer use any kind of remote control. I now
>> use cheap android tablets + homeseer + some pretty simple coding
>> to control everything.
>
>
> Yup ;-)  I use both my current iPhone and the earlier model it replaced.
>
> At last count at http://www.cocoontech.com/portal/ there were at least 330
> iPhone and 100 Android Home Automation apps.
>
> ... Marc

Better yet, write them yourself in html and use HS's asp.net api to query
devices and fire events. It's incredibly easy.


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Mort