Deane Johnson
Active Member
I've been using HA for a number of years, beginning with the Ocelot over a decade ago. I then moved to Elve when John had it in BETA for months and it gave me a change to upgrade my knowledge. I loved Elve and still do, but as most know, it's died with the departure of John to greener pastures.
I thought this weekend I'd try HomeSeer 3.0. Mark had asked me to give 3.0 a try, so I thought I should spend some serious time with it. Anyway, it's always flattering to get an invite from the head guy. Well Mark, it was enough to cause one to kick their dog. I had tried 2.0 a few years back and even refreshed my memory of it's structure with a couple of old tutorials. I remember it going together easily and being reasonably logical to work with. Things pretty much made sense with 2.0. That's probably why it became so successful. Yesterday, I downloaded HomeSeer 3.0. I spent hours trying to get a fix on it conceptually and got no where. Nothing about it makes any logical sense to me as HomeSeer 2.0 did previously. With many hours over several days I never got anything much going. Luckily, I don't have a dog around to bear the brunt of a kick.
Realizing I was never going to get anywhere with HomeSeer 3.0 and HSTouch, I decided to download the trial for CQC, which I know to be a well respected piece of software, albeit a bit complex to learn. I know Dean Roddy is a well respected programmer and is doing a lot of work on it, so I thought it worthy of spending a few days with. Well guess what. I can't even get it loaded into my computer running Windows 8.1. It requires "administrator rights", which of course I have, but that didn't help. I followed all of the instructions I could find on trying to get the Setup file into an Administrator Command Prompt window as Dean instructs, but to no avail. You can't drag and drop it in, you can't copy and paste it in, you can't run the file as a "run as administrator" file. Whatever happened to just having an "install" button while you sit back and have a fresh cup of coffee and maybe pet the dog.
Why am I posting this here? Well, every once in awhile someone comes up with a good suggestion on some excellent software that I haven't thought of. I've been spoiled by Elve. Elegant, clean, stable, robust, manageable, and very well mannered, John, why did you have to leave us?
So, it's close all of the browser windows I have open on 3 screens, restart Elve, re-enable all of the device drivers, and forget about the frustrations of this weekend of trying to find life after Elve. At least the Nebraska Huskers won their game yesterday.
I thought this weekend I'd try HomeSeer 3.0. Mark had asked me to give 3.0 a try, so I thought I should spend some serious time with it. Anyway, it's always flattering to get an invite from the head guy. Well Mark, it was enough to cause one to kick their dog. I had tried 2.0 a few years back and even refreshed my memory of it's structure with a couple of old tutorials. I remember it going together easily and being reasonably logical to work with. Things pretty much made sense with 2.0. That's probably why it became so successful. Yesterday, I downloaded HomeSeer 3.0. I spent hours trying to get a fix on it conceptually and got no where. Nothing about it makes any logical sense to me as HomeSeer 2.0 did previously. With many hours over several days I never got anything much going. Luckily, I don't have a dog around to bear the brunt of a kick.
Realizing I was never going to get anywhere with HomeSeer 3.0 and HSTouch, I decided to download the trial for CQC, which I know to be a well respected piece of software, albeit a bit complex to learn. I know Dean Roddy is a well respected programmer and is doing a lot of work on it, so I thought it worthy of spending a few days with. Well guess what. I can't even get it loaded into my computer running Windows 8.1. It requires "administrator rights", which of course I have, but that didn't help. I followed all of the instructions I could find on trying to get the Setup file into an Administrator Command Prompt window as Dean instructs, but to no avail. You can't drag and drop it in, you can't copy and paste it in, you can't run the file as a "run as administrator" file. Whatever happened to just having an "install" button while you sit back and have a fresh cup of coffee and maybe pet the dog.
Why am I posting this here? Well, every once in awhile someone comes up with a good suggestion on some excellent software that I haven't thought of. I've been spoiled by Elve. Elegant, clean, stable, robust, manageable, and very well mannered, John, why did you have to leave us?
So, it's close all of the browser windows I have open on 3 screens, restart Elve, re-enable all of the device drivers, and forget about the frustrations of this weekend of trying to find life after Elve. At least the Nebraska Huskers won their game yesterday.