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RE: HomeVision or other?
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- Subject: RE: HomeVision or other?
- From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:21:51 -0000
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I took a look at HV's current price and it does
seem
more expensive than I remember. The differential is quite significant
now.
You can compare the hardware features yourself I guess
from
the specs so here's some comments on the software side.
The Ocelot is the brains behind the Leopard
controller
and is well produced and professional product (IMO). I use the Leopard and
I am
happy with it, but I find it awkward. A lot of my criticisms are to do with
the
specific capabilities of the Touch screen interface and the ongoing
development
of the product and hence don't apply to the Ocelot. Basically little
appears to
be happening in terms of new features but what you do have works well. The
programming environment for the Ocelot is quite different to HomeVision -
much
more like a programming language and that may or may not be an advantage to
you.
I suggest you download the software which is available on the web site and
try
it and see what you think. It can be used without the Ocelot connected. In
addition I suspect the amount of code space inside the Ocelot is much less
than
with HV and requires much more skill to code in a complex environment.
There is
a well supported mail list for this however. Homeseer supports Ocelot
directly.
HomeVision - which I use too - is my choice of HV
controller. I find it easy to use and incredibly powerful, it has a busy
mail
list supporting it and Craig does an exemplary job. In fact he and Dan
Hoehnen (ACE author) are my nominations for the best support Oscars. I find
it
much easier to add things quickly into HV and to understand things
later on
when I've forgotten why I did such and such. This allows for more ad hoc
experimentation & less planning is required (but not recommended). The
programming environment can also be downloaded from CSI's site and works
without
HV so have a look and see - it is a much more graphic environment. In
addition
the HomeVision application links up with ACE etc via DDE to provide a very
tightly integrated solution. The ACE / Homeseer integration is much more of
a
programming interface (COM).
In the USA there is also a product called HomeVision
PC
available which is lower cost - the main difference being it is a card
sitting
in a PC so it requires a permanently powered PC.
My recommendation ?? HV every time but that's being a
little insensitive to the now much larger price difference than I had
expected,
so you takes your choice I guess... If you will use TV display then the HV
of
course is a certain choice.
Kevin
[[K]]
-----Original
Message----- From: Andy Laurence
[mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx] Sent: 22 February 2002
16:46 To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d]
Homevision or other?
I
suppose it'll be time for me to splash out on an HA controller of
some description soon. I've been looking around at the
possibles. I've seen this (http://www.letsautomate.com/10599.cfm?CFID=432&CFTOKEN=51078446)
which seems to do quite a lot for not a lot of money.
I'm after
something which will do X10, IR and possibly control things via relays
(no
idea what yet). Bear in mind that I run a server 24/7 at home, and
have another which can do the same. What would I be missing out on if
I bought the above rather than HomeVision? I know I'd lose the TV
interface of HomeVision, but that doesn't bother me. Are there
other
alternatives?
Andy -- PC-Based Multimedia System http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms
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