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Agent99
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Hello,
I am currently testing out PowerHome. My main reason for testing PH out is because I just installed an ELK M1 Gold and wanted something that would work well with it. I am currently using the ELK as my controller to interface with my current x10 HA system. I realize that x10 does not get much live among avid HA users, however my system has performed pretty reliable for me once I got it all sorted out and do not currently wish to spend big bucks $ to upgrade. I may migrate to Insteon or UPB in the future. Powerhome curently supports Insteon quite well and I believe that the are working to get UPB into the mix.
When I first started to use Powerhome I have to be honest it was not the easiest program out there to figure out. However the the more I dig into it the more I realize just how powerful it really can be. I believe that the control center design could use some help as it is not very intuitive at all. I would suggest that some sample pre configured designs would make things much easier for beginners.I have not yet tried out many of the features like voice recognition. I have used the web interface and find it to be great.I would like to see a more PDA friendly web status page though.
All in all I will likely be staying with PH and would like any help or suggestions that I might integrate into my PH/ELK setup.
Ramblings from a new user,
dave
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TonyNo
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Welcome aboard!
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I was in the same boat until I found a better browser than PocketIE.  I still use some of the WML pages that I made long ago. Unfortunately, they are pretty specific to my system. Let me know if you'd be interested.
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Agent99
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TonyNo wrote:
Welcome aboard!
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I believe the sample database has some.
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I was in the same boat until I found a better browser than PocketIE. I still use some of the WML pages that I made long ago. Unfortunately, they are pretty specific to my system. Let me know if you'd be interested. |
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Hello,
thanks for the encouragement. I a question, how do i open up the Powerhome sample database. The program defaults to my personal setup and I do not see an obvious way to open up the sample database . I do see it listed in the progam section for PH and tried to just double click it but it asks for a program to associate with the file type and PH is not listed as avaiable.
As to your Pda Files I would be interested to see what you did if for no other reason but to see what might be possible. I use a mobile windows 5.0 PDA (palm Treo 700wx) it only has a 320X240 native screen resolution. I can use the web access with it but its hard because I have to scroll a lot to see much. You mentioned a better pda browser ?.
Thanks Dave
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Try this … Click on PH Explore while in PH then hit F7 select Database click on phsample. You should be able to browse the sample database.
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TonyNo
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The browser I'm using is NetFront. The latest "technology demo" version is, unfortunately, a step backwards, but it's still better than PIE.
Here are some screen shots of my PDA screens...
Secu
Lights
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TStat
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ginigma
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Not bad. But you need more contrast between the blue lettering and the black background. Either that or I need new glasses! 
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They're jpg'ed, so it's a bit blurry. On the PPC, it's very readable for me.
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