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That depends on what you want to do. If you want to control a few lights and have no problem with being dependent on the computer, than you should be fine with the eeci products. I work with a local company that produces smart home controllers. They are a bit more expensive than the eeci products, b...

If the house is already built, search for wireless systems like zwave and plcbus.
If you are building a new house, I suggest to prefer a wired system. Such systems are more reliable.

I'm not familiar with RA2.
The 'Homeworks' system that I am familiar with has a Lutron CPU, which is actually a computer.

Over the years I had an excellent experience with Scott's support. Although he is busy in other things, he does his best to support users. Members in the forums also contribute from their knowledge and experience. I wouldn't be surprised if Scott contacted that person and solved his/her problem, but...

Maybe I can help.
I wrote a Lutron "Homeworks" plugin.
If that's what you need, I don't mind sharing.

Is this a new installation? If so, check the security settings. i think that HB requires administrator rights. You may want to try the original database to see if it loads. Backup your HBdata file in the config folder, and copy the original HBData from the config\backup folder. If you use plugins th...

Is your Windows timezone correct?

For me, Scott made the difference. When I was looking for home automation software, the thing I cared the most was support. HB was in it's early days, with a very small community. The software however was stable and rich of features. I also liked the small family-like community. Above all was Scott ...

i suggest that you first check if you actually send the code out. If you look through a digital camera you should be able to see the IR flashing. If the code is send out, than you are in trouble. Some remotes send different codes in each press. In such cases, the device is programmed to ignore repea...

Terry,

Thank you for sharing this tip.
It is great!

Do you have a way to keep the IRDesktop running with a blank screen?
Instead of reconnecting every time I use it, I'd like to be connected all the time (without using too much battery power).

Thank you,

Yoram

This is going to be an interesting thread.

Thank you Terry!

It will keep me busy for the weekend.

A property can be either read-only or read/write. Some read/write properties are not meant to be changed by a task or theme. They are defined as read/write to enable to set this property value ONCE. For example, there's no need to change a property value that holds a device ID from a task or a from ...

Did anybody try to run SWRemote on a Windows CE 6.0 device?

Is it possible to specify the context when opening a popup panel with a task?

Thanks

I'm experimenting with Visual Studio 2008.
Are there SDKs that are ready for VS 2008?

Thanks