Just another small feature that I do really like in HS2.0. The ability to have speech come out any computer on the network. This reqires a small client side tray program. When any speech is spoken by HS you can dirrected to any or all PC's on the network.
The other advantage of the client side app is Voice Recognition. Say Sally has a computer in her room, she can train a voice profile, and then issue commands to Home Seer. HS can also tell where the request came from and pipe the speech back to that system. So if Sally asks what the current temperature is, from her computer, HS will reply with the temperature to her PC from which the request came from.
I changed a few lines in my caller ID announcement, and it is pretty kewl :blink: When say my roomates mother calls, it now announces in My Room "Danny's Mother is calling". However in Danny's room it annouces "Your mother is calling".
I agree with what others have said here for sure! Let me put it bluntly.....I
HATE the fact that HS2 is all web based. I like the look, speed and feel of a GUI, and not a webbrowser. Setting up events and conditions is a royal pain in the u-know-what. To further complicate matters, HS2 will NOT work with Firefox, opera and a few other browsers.
Rick from HST: "So after avoiding anything that ties us to a specific browser for 6 years, we have finally gone with DHTML which will not render properly with all browsers".
As the interface is web based, it should not be too hard to create a GUI to work as a frontend for HomeSeer. I do not have the programming skills for such a task, but I sure hope someone else does, and takes on the task :blink: