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RE: MSN Messanger as home control interface anyone?
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: RE: MSN Messanger as home control interface
anyone?
- From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 15:59:20 +0000
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>
>I've not done much COM stuff for quite a while now, but would be
interested
>in helping you since this was exactly the sort of thing that I wanted
to do
>as well!
>
I've done a little bit of COM stuff in VB before - also to talk to
Homeseer,
so I am fine with making the middleware component talk to Homeseer, and I
expect it will be just as straightforward to make it talk to Messanger. (I
hope it will anyway!)
>Currently, I am very busy though, but may have some spare time after
xmas.
>I'll take a look at the messenger API over xmas and see what I can come
up
>with.
>
This is my plan as well, I'm having quite a long break over Xmas, and I'm
staying home for most of it, so I'm hoping to get quite a few of these
"When
I get a round tuit" jobs done...
>I know a web browser is probably a more-widely available client for
talking
>to your server, but my machines are all win2k anyway, and my main use
would
>be for playing around whilst I am at work or on the road. Plus how
cool
>would it be to be able to message your HA server?
>
Exactly!! - the best reason to do anything is for the Kudos value!!
>Also, messenger is on WinCE too so also makes a neat interface from
your
>iPaq or whatever...
>
Yup, I'd though of that too... plus the IM client is built-in to Win XP as
well....
Paul G.
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