I spent the last few days reviewing Homeseer from the perspective of using it as a HA webserver - likely purchasing a dedicated box like the HomeTroller - and operating it from web capable devices. I have disabled clients who use UMPCs, Macs, XP notebooks and other devices like the N800 through special access methods - so I was attracted to the idea of using a common webserver to make HA things platform independent. Homeseer as a controller base seems to integrate all the common HA devices and protocol very well - but the webserver component needs work. I wanted to make some easy common onscreen keypad designs for rooms, IR device control keypads, and appliance/lighting keypads suitable for touchscreen devices. I found and tried jon00 control designer but it only seems to do x10 events and I wasn't clear whether it could be setup for IR events.
What I found most tedious was it came down to editing an ini text file with constant referencing to cryptic event names and syntax to communicate back to the HS controllers. Not good for the uninitiated....
Tried netremote with NetTouchPad.ccf and couldn't even get it to comm back the the HS hsgirder server ports - although the HS webserver worked fine through Firefox....
Is there no editor out there that provides a simple visual style layout tool to create buttons and interlinked webpages for the HS webserver with easy assignment of x10 and ir, webcam, etc control events to those virtual buttons (ideally through a dropdown list of available events)? Is MainLobby any better at this?
The idea is to keep all changes on the HS webserver and not be transferring and updating files (like ccfs) on the portable control platform. The ability to make changes remotely would be great too.. Also the object and graphics on the webpage need to have properties that make them identifiable to other software such as NaturallySpeaking.
What I found most tedious was it came down to editing an ini text file with constant referencing to cryptic event names and syntax to communicate back to the HS controllers. Not good for the uninitiated....
Tried netremote with NetTouchPad.ccf and couldn't even get it to comm back the the HS hsgirder server ports - although the HS webserver worked fine through Firefox....
Is there no editor out there that provides a simple visual style layout tool to create buttons and interlinked webpages for the HS webserver with easy assignment of x10 and ir, webcam, etc control events to those virtual buttons (ideally through a dropdown list of available events)? Is MainLobby any better at this?
The idea is to keep all changes on the HS webserver and not be transferring and updating files (like ccfs) on the portable control platform. The ability to make changes remotely would be great too.. Also the object and graphics on the webpage need to have properties that make them identifiable to other software such as NaturallySpeaking.
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