Dear HomeSeer experts,
It's been a long time since I don't use HomeSeer. I still have some licenses around here from a couple of installations that I did when I worked in the Home Automation area, more than six years ago. I'm myself a Linux user but I've never had any problem in recommending this amazing (windows-based) software to any friend having asked me about good HA solutions.
I also developed some xAP-enabled embedded controllers in the past (opnodes) and choosing xAP instead of other alternatives was mainly motivated by the existence of some xAP plugins for HomeSeer. However, I come here today with a different (wireless) technology, entirely developed under Python on the computer side, which provides different ways of integration to third-party applications but no xAP at all. The easiest for me would be to use one of the following integration paths:
1. Develop a plugin for HomeSeer under Python, making use of our Python library to communicate with our wireless motes.
2. Develop a plugin for HomeSeer under any other language and communicate with our Python-based daemon via HTTP and ZeroMQ, which then communicates with the wireless network.
I admit that option 1 is my favorite since HomeSeer would stay closer to the wireless network. Moreover, installing the Python (IP) daemon on windows is sometimes a bit complicated due dependencies and the fact that windows users tend to prefer plug&play stuff. I've also read that HomeSeer now supports Python scripting in the same way it did with VBScript but I wonder if option 1 is possible or not.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Daniel.
It's been a long time since I don't use HomeSeer. I still have some licenses around here from a couple of installations that I did when I worked in the Home Automation area, more than six years ago. I'm myself a Linux user but I've never had any problem in recommending this amazing (windows-based) software to any friend having asked me about good HA solutions.
I also developed some xAP-enabled embedded controllers in the past (opnodes) and choosing xAP instead of other alternatives was mainly motivated by the existence of some xAP plugins for HomeSeer. However, I come here today with a different (wireless) technology, entirely developed under Python on the computer side, which provides different ways of integration to third-party applications but no xAP at all. The easiest for me would be to use one of the following integration paths:
1. Develop a plugin for HomeSeer under Python, making use of our Python library to communicate with our wireless motes.
2. Develop a plugin for HomeSeer under any other language and communicate with our Python-based daemon via HTTP and ZeroMQ, which then communicates with the wireless network.
I admit that option 1 is my favorite since HomeSeer would stay closer to the wireless network. Moreover, installing the Python (IP) daemon on windows is sometimes a bit complicated due dependencies and the fact that windows users tend to prefer plug&play stuff. I've also read that HomeSeer now supports Python scripting in the same way it did with VBScript but I wonder if option 1 is possible or not.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
Daniel.
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