RE: [ADVERT] Request for xPL Beta Testers

[Graham Howe]

I have just rebuilt my HA server, W2KS was giving me some problems and a
hard disk was failing, so I have gone back to XP Pro on it. Consequently
I now have a near virgin install with no xPL stuff on board yet. I do
have isdnCID running on the machine along with HomeVision software (no
Homeseer) and a connection to Comfort and HV hardware. I do have a CM12
(somewhere) but it is not connected because of HV. I have plenty of x10,
a Tivo (with network connection) and Firm. No Linux box that I want to
admit to at the moment, but if someone near Milton Keynes would like to
come and set one up for me, then I would really like a SpamAssasin
machine, but it is beyond me :-(

As an added bonus this is also the machine that HomeAutomator runs on,
but that has not been re-installed since the new OS.

I am very happy to try out xPL stuff on this kit if your are interested,
and if necessary I can probably fish out a CM12 and connect it, assuming
it can happily coexist with HV.

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Subject: [ukha_xpl] [ADVERT] Request for xPL Beta Tester


The xPL Project has recently been allocated a Port by IANA, (the rather
sexy
3865) and has therefore released a set of new applications and
development frameworks.

The project has an incredible amount of potential for hooking together
HA devices and Home equipment in intelligent and useful ways. It's a
great concept, and one that we now need help to bring to completion.

At present, "simple" stuff such as reacting to an incoming phone
call by
muting the speakers, and displaying the incoming call details on Tivo or
a Slimp3 can be done with ease. Each of the developers has a collection
of HA tasks being carried out by the xPLHal Server.

What we need is a complete environment to reconstruct using xPL. We
believe that xPLHal with the Configuration and Management tools that
have been written for it (even in their early state) may be a suitable
replacement for a simple installation of Homeseer, and would ask that
anyone using Homeseer and looking for an alternative (or possibly anyone
considering a HomeSeer purchase, and willing to try out some new toys in
the meantime) contacts the team.

At present, to match our perfect profile you need to have:
1) A Windows PC to run xPLHal
2) A CM12
3) Some X10 kit
4) ISDN and a CAPI PC Card (OR) a Meteor CID Device

It would be nice if you had:
1) A Tivo
2) A Linux PC
3) Some IR Equipment (UIR, UIRT, RedRat, FiRM)

If you don't match that list just now, keep watching this space. The
tools in the field just now are a mix of end-user applications and
developer tools. Obviously, we need more end user tools, and that's only
going to happen as people give us tasks, and come up with bits of kit to
enable.

We are very aware that the initial discussions that led to xAP, and
ultimately spawned xPL as well began over a year ago, and the various
back and forth discussions about the relative merits of xAP and xPL are
turning people off faster than Anne Widdecombe in Lingerie, so we'd
rather leave that behind. Whatever platform is ultimately the best match
may well never be decided.

In the meantime however, the fact remains that xPL can provide the glue
to bind your various HA systems together, with considerable intelligence
and complexity. It's not in the hands of Microsoft like HCP, it's not
wrapped in a thousand lines of NDA agreement. It's in the public domain,
and has rich tools that allow us to code quickly for a wide variety of
systems.

Anyone that can help is more than welcome to contact us :)

Ian.



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