Hello everyone, I am new here and to the world of home automation and I am strongly considering using Premise for the brains behind my condo. Premise seems like a well hidden gem in the HA world, and while small the community here looks extremely helpful. I wanted to come here and make sure it can do everything I want it to before I spend the time diving into this stuff though. My motivation for using premise comes from etc6849's post about his system, which sounds pretty much exactly like what I want, except instead of using URC remotes to send commands I want to use iRule plus an ipad and do everything over IP.
My system is pretty simple right now, a single room with TV, receiver, cable box, and HTPC, but I will be expanding it to including multi room lighting control, thermostat, blinds and a second room of A/V control over time. It sounds like premise should be able to do all of that easily but I have a couple things I would like to run by the experts. First, has anyone done windows media center control over IP? I haven't read much about it but I do all my music and movie watching through media center and being able to control that well is a must. I found a program called MCE Controller (sorry I would post a link but apparently noobs can't do that - if you google 'MCE Controller' you will find it easily enough) while doing some searching which seems like what I would want. Is it easy to implement that in premise, or better yet is there a native solution? Second iRule is capable of two way feedback, and I would like to be able to display all that information on the ipad. Would that information have to be passed through premise or can it go straight to irule? If it has to be passed through is that something that can be accomplished easily?
I have not done anyone programming in VB.net but I am quite familiar with programming in general and have used java, python, fortran, C, matlab, and labview in varying degrees so while there will be a learning curve for me I am confident I will be able to pick up the required skills. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
My system is pretty simple right now, a single room with TV, receiver, cable box, and HTPC, but I will be expanding it to including multi room lighting control, thermostat, blinds and a second room of A/V control over time. It sounds like premise should be able to do all of that easily but I have a couple things I would like to run by the experts. First, has anyone done windows media center control over IP? I haven't read much about it but I do all my music and movie watching through media center and being able to control that well is a must. I found a program called MCE Controller (sorry I would post a link but apparently noobs can't do that - if you google 'MCE Controller' you will find it easily enough) while doing some searching which seems like what I would want. Is it easy to implement that in premise, or better yet is there a native solution? Second iRule is capable of two way feedback, and I would like to be able to display all that information on the ipad. Would that information have to be passed through premise or can it go straight to irule? If it has to be passed through is that something that can be accomplished easily?
I have not done anyone programming in VB.net but I am quite familiar with programming in general and have used java, python, fortran, C, matlab, and labview in varying degrees so while there will be a learning curve for me I am confident I will be able to pick up the required skills. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.