Too bad he didn't have Homeseer

[DC]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/28/chr....ap/index.html

He wouldn't have had to lie!

[cadillackid]

interesting thing is I did just that on my site but i guess 4000 lights wasnt enough to get any attention... plus i only had a stationary webcam...

interesting
-christopher

[bruce l]

I think I actually looked at his site last year. Rich should send him a complementary copy of HS so next year he can be for real

[wpiman]

Man

Some computer specialist..... That was my first home automation project when I got out of college 6 years ago. I got a X10 firecracker and transceiver for $5 on X10.com. I ran a webpage on my Linux box and had a cgi script that would turn on and off the firecracker. I hooked up my XMAS lights in our bar room to the transceiver and all the people at work would turn on and off my xmas lights. No password- no nothing.

He doesn't need a $150 copy of homeseer for this project- he needed $5 worth of parts and a free version of apache.

Sad....

[Rupp]

I think it's funny. It's also ingenious. I wish I had though of it. I'm amazed that no one caught on though.

[Gogs]

Yes I think it's funny, especially the way he duped the American Press, of course that would never happen over here, would it!!!

Can't help but think it would have been a lot more fun, and easier, just to have used HomeSeer.

[WayneW]

Not being a Photoshop type person myself, I think that what he actually did is harder than what he claimed to do. He created a virtual pan/tilt webcam, complete with changing lights, simulated traffic (pedestrian, vehicles & airplanes) and appropriate weather and snowfall conditions. I think that would make for a interesting home automation interface, producing images of various rooms with various lighting enabled and possibly other conditions. Neater than a glowing icon on a floorplan map.

[johnwpb]

Been there, done that!

WaneW Wrote:

I think that would make for a interesting home automation interface, producing images of various rooms with various lighting enabled and possibly other conditions. Neater than a glowing icon on a floorplan map.

I set something up like this a few months back. The link below is just for demonstration purposes. I didnt want to put the live version on the web and have my lights in the living room constantly going on and off You can check it out HERE

[Shawn]

Wow John, that's great.