Anyone has info on the new Hawking HomeRemote for zWave?

[KenM]

As I understand it, a web IP type camera will not integrate into the HomeRemote menu unless you are using the TZO service. I know I could not make mine work.

I was able to use my IP camera by assigning it to a certain port and forwarding that port # to the camera's IP address. I am using DynDNS with one address for my router and I let the router forward the assigned port # to the proper hardware. (myaddressortnumber)

I use HomeSeer2 on a dedicated PC to manage my HA. I also use the same PC to manage my security cameras. In my case the Hawking wireless IP camera did not work out anywhere near as good as a wired camera with a PC capture card. I picked up a refurbished P4 for a few hundred $ a while back for HA use and that has worked out well. It has enough horsepower to manage two cameras and HS2. I set it up to auto reboot and operate in the event the UPS drops off.

I still have the Hawking Gateway connected as a backup control. I am guessing that it would be excellent for a remote location that a person would not be at all of the time. The features per $ are also attractive.

Ken

 

[twilo123]

Ken, your statement about the camera is correct only for external use. internally you can just use the ip address of your z-wave page and click the link and it will forward automatically to the ip/port of the camera. i do so with computers and touchscreen internet tablets with no problem. i have stated to frumple that i created 2 subdomains on dyndns for external use, 1 for the z-wave web page and 1 for the video camera web page. the only thing that tzo 'integrates' into the homeremote menu is the ip address/port of the video camera web page which is seperate to the z-wave page regardless of whether you use tzo or not. it's just a pop up with a forward to the web page for the ip camera. they are seperate pages altogether.

hawking just came out with a firmware update to their camera a couple of days ago. i believe it is 1.95 or something. maybe it will help. i definitely agree that no wireless camera tends to be as stable as a wired camera but for those who don't want or have the option to run cat5 around the house, wireless is a decent alternative.

i think there was a similar conversion on your accessha site about the hawking setup. if you are the same KenM over there.

 

[pkshiu]

you could write a UI but how would you get the appliance to serve the page unless you can hack the box? i would love to see at least some different skins, most notably a wap version and something more intuitive for small touchscreens like internet tablets (think nokio n770+)

What I am thinking is have a separate machine, possibly not even in the local (data, not zwave) network. It becomes a proxy that serves up any UI that I like. It will then call the hawking box pretending to be a browser (HTTP Client). It's kinda a kludge but should work. I would only do this because I already have other web servers running elsewhere. I wouldn't dedicate a box just to do this. Otherwise I would just use homeseer etc, as mentioned by someone else.

So basically if the hawking UI is somple HTML Form based, I can "pretend" to be a browser to it, if the forms are not too complicated. Anyway this is all theoretical. I just wish there is a box like the Hawking that is standalone, but let us add our own software to it. Really don't want to deal with Windows although I have played with the very nice controlthink SDK.