Homeseer on a mac...finally

["jeyellok" <johnflamont@xxxxxxxxx>]

Been a bit of a lurker for many years on the forum. With others help
and the passage of
time i automated most lights and my central heating system which i simply
love living with
and is controlled by Homeseer. Early in 2005 i bought a Mac mini to
experiment with.
Without getting into an argey-bargey (not in my dictionerey!) over windows
vs. mac i loved
OS X and its brilliant power to parentally control my youngsters email and
web habbits -
and it never crashed. The experience made me want to move more of my 'life'
onto the
mac. Since then i've bought more Apple hardware including an intel-powered
laptop.

The point of this post was i could not never find equivalent Automation
packages to match
Homeseer or Ambient's Virtual Weather Station that ran on the mac. Even
Microsofts
Windows emulator, Virtual PC was useless. Recently a company called
Parallels released an
app that allows you to run Windows alongside OS X seamlessly. Using its new
'coherence'
mode, the MS taskbar sits on the bottom of the screen alongside the OS X
dock. MS
windows and OS X windows play so nicely together in the same way its simply
freaky to
see in action. I started with a ZX81 and now have a beard so i'm not
freaked easliy!

Bottom line is homeseer and my Weather station apps work on my Apple laptop
flawlessley
(25hrs so far) with the steam-boiler PC switched-off and the relative
silence is deafening. I
am cheating because i'm still within windows for automation and weather,
but perhaps i
now have the best of both worlds. I will add a mac logo to the outside of
the house beside
the 'Intel inside' and 'Designed for MS Windows'

I can post a more detailed write-up later if someone gives me a pointer.

Regards
John