Re: X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

["Charles Page" <c_page@xxxxxxx>]

8!  Why, could you wire Comfort both to, say, a PC and Home Vision?

 

S'pose its all about expandability.

 

Cheers,

 

Charlie

----- Original Message -----

From: Dan Hoehnen

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 1:51 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

The UCM is the name of the device that connects to the Comfort communication bus and provides a rs232 serial port interface.  You can have up to 8 UCM's attached to 1 Comfort.  Now that's flexibility!

 

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Page [mailto:c_page@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:20 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

Sorry, bt whats a UCM?

 

Thanks,

 

Charlie

----- Original Message -----

From: Dan Hoehnen

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:21 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

The UCM provides a serial interface to Comfort.  This is a very nice interface.  Almost everything can be done by sending commands over the serial link to the UCM.  The UCM also reports events out the serial port (armed, disarmed, zone status change, etc.) automatically so that no polling is required.  Your own software could easily log these events and display them however you like.

 

Comfort with a UCM will give you the very configurable system you desire. 

 

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Page [mailto:c_page@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 3:03 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

I was planning to use both a PC and Comfort.

 

How controllable is comfort via computer interface?  How much data is "reported" to the computer?  Have I got my wires crossed here?  Can you log comfort actions on the computer, and display, say, temperature graphically? 

 

I was hoping to use the central computer to provide whole house audio on demand from MP3`s, combined with control of other audi-visual appliances, although I don`t know quite how yet!  Also, expanding into voice activation through the computer and software when my budget and reliability allow.

 

Basically I want a very configurable system I can build on.  I have high hopes, and a small budget!

 

Regards,

 

Charlie

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark McCall

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:26 AM

Subject: Re: [ukha_d] X10, PCs/Homeseer and Reliability

 

>Sorry, this is another one of my patented incoherent e-mails so I'll summarise (or try to ;-)):

>what prompts people to use something like HV/Comfort rather than a PC? Is it purely price?  

 

A dedicated hardware solution like Comfort or HV is definately more robust than a PC solution.  In the case of HV vs HomeSeer (for example) you'd also have to add on quite a bit of hardware to bring your PC up to the same capabilities as HV.  You'd need video in and out, IR Tx and Rx, X10 Interface, digital and analogue I/Os as well. 

 

Once you had all these add-ons it would be unlikely they would interact as flawlessly as in the HV design.

 

However for many people HomeSeer and a PC will be more than enough for their needs. 

 

Depends what you want to do?

 

M.

 

 

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