[Hai-users] Re: Software Pick - HAI vs HAL2000

[Jean-Claude Provost]

I absolutely agree.  My experience with HAL has been somewhat tepid...  It
is much more resource-hungry than HomeSeer and It is less flexible in terms
of expanding its functionalities via user development.  The PC it ran on
became unstable and, could not be used for much of anything else...
However, Perhaps HAL has a bit more built-in stuff out of the box but, if
you intend to develop yourself, to me anyway, it's a No-Brainer... HomeSeer
is the way to go!

Cheers, from Montréal, 

JC Provost
TransaxSens 


Cheers,

JC 
-----Original Message-----
From: hai-users-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:hai-users-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Dan Butterfield
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 10:56 PM
To: HAI Users Group
Subject: [Hai-users] Re: Software Pick - HAI vs HAL2000

Darren and Jody Bzdel <buzzman at sasktel.net> Wrote:
> I am currently expanding my home automation to include lighting and have
> planned to go with HAI and UPB.  While I am ordering equipment I wanted to
> also purchase PC software and would appreciate feedback and experience 
> from
> the group.  My requirements are:
>
> 1) Control of the automation equipment and programs.  Also compatible with
>    PDA wireless device.
>
> 2) Video monitoring (home camera RG59 and 2 wire-18guage to 10 locations
>    wired)
>
> 3) Email event output
>
> Nothing much out of the ordinary, wanted to know opinions on HAI vs Hal
> solutions.  I also have a Nuvo home audio 6 zone configuration, but I
> assume they both interface to audio devices.
>
> I am leaning towards HAI as I have not been disappointed with the products
> I have from them currently.

I personally find HAI +HomeSeer to be a good combination of a high 
reliability dedicated automation/security/HVAC controller (HAI) and an 
extremely flexible expandable PC automation platform (HomeSeer).  They're 
pretty well integrated also, to the point that I use HomeSeer's web 
interface to HAI (via it's HAI plugin) more than I use HAI's weblink.

- Dan Butterfield 


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