Re: [etc-users] ETC features?

[Chris K. <ch...@ck...>]

HomeSeer looks like it's a decent product, but it's only Windows-based, which appears it would alienate most of the users here, myself included. 

Chris


On Tue, 16 October 2001, ani...@ho... wrote:

> 
> Why not create a plugin for HomeSeer? other vendors have so far, and its a
> pretty cool piece of software (I would buy it from you)  Homeseer has a
> built in web server for X10 control, if you could somehow interface with
> that it would be awesome.  With macros within homeseer you could also run
> just about any program, MP3's also.
> 
>     Andy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Farver" <mf...@mi...>
> To: "Chris Maresca" <ck...@cr...>
> Cc: <etc...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [etc-users] ETC features?
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Chris Maresca wrote:
> >
> > > I like it the way it is, although the ability to follow a link other
> than
> > > the default one would be great.  That would allow for more complex
> > > interactions.
> >
> > > 1. support imagemaps (I suppose it kinda does that already)
> > > 2. support other URLs (perhaps a re-direct after touch or something)
> >
> > Are you looking for a more complete webbrowser type interface?  I could
> > handle the HTTP redirect command fairly easily.  (For the unfamiliar when
> > a web browser goes to a certain URL the HTTP spec allows the server to
> > send back a reply that tell the webbrowser to jump to a different URL)
> >
> > Can you describe a little more how you envision things working?  I'm not
> > sure if I understand what you are looking for (client side image maps?)
> >
> > I can see the value of making a ETC a simple browser.. it would be a
> > familiar system for most people.
> >
> > A lot of the support questions I keep getting are related to getting PHP
> > or Apache running... so I have a feeling that a certain percentage of
> > users are stumped by the whole server side image map interface.
> >
> > Other thoughts?
> >
> > I freed some time tonight.. so I will get the refresh problems solved and
> > release a patch.
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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