Has anyone played with this? If you've ever been to an Apple Store, the displays behind the Genius Bar are just .qtz apps that pull an RSS feed and display the data on the screen. You can *easily* build some real eye candy looking status screens with this thing. Even though it's kind of pointless, it took me 5 minutes to make one with a rotating cube that played a different video stream on each side of it in real-time as it rotated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z6aH0enaKQ...feature=related
http://vimeo.com/4847806
You can even make a full featured UI with it that takes user input:
http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2008/01/27/quartz-composer/
If you turned all of your data from CQC, HomeSeer, or whatever into RSS Feeds, this could easily pull all of the data and display it however you wanted. Like I said, this thing is *easy* to use. You don't even write code, you just drag and drop and connect different functionality together with lines to tell it what to do. If you have a mac, install the Developer Tools and start playing around or go through one of the many tutorials out there on how to get started.
Looks like these might actually run on an AppleTV also, but you'll still need a Mac/Hackintosh to design them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z6aH0enaKQ...feature=related
http://vimeo.com/4847806
You can even make a full featured UI with it that takes user input:
http://www.rhonabwy.com/wp/2008/01/27/quartz-composer/
If you turned all of your data from CQC, HomeSeer, or whatever into RSS Feeds, this could easily pull all of the data and display it however you wanted. Like I said, this thing is *easy* to use. You don't even write code, you just drag and drop and connect different functionality together with lines to tell it what to do. If you have a mac, install the Developer Tools and start playing around or go through one of the many tutorials out there on how to get started.
Looks like these might actually run on an AppleTV also, but you'll still need a Mac/Hackintosh to design them.
