I have played the waiting game for close to a year now and have been keeping up with the veiled promises of a Meedio/Housebot combined solution. Pre Meedio acquisition of Housebot saw us getting much better turnaround of release plans and actual releases. What have they done to you Scottbot? You seem to have been swallowed up by the Meedio abyss. Please tell me that it is going to be worth waiting for whatever it is you are promising. My Home Theatre has been built from the ground up, fully equipped, wired and functioning around my HTPC setup with Meedio and Housebot at the core. Everything works fine from movies, music, TV, automation of screen, lights, fans etc......but with clutsy workarounds. I have noticed that there has not been a great deal of third party development in this area...perhaps because of the promised new version...so we are being doubly frustrated. Make me happy!
Ok i have been playing with meedio for a while and now im ready to take the big plunge, into home automation. I gather that essentials and housebot do not communicated with eachother well. So here is my questions
1. Can you launch and control housebot from within essentials?
2. Can you launch and control essentials from housebot?
3. I realize most of the things you do with housebot require additional hardware like light modules.. But i was wondering if anyone knows of a simple get started tutorial, that does not require anymore then the basic software? It would be nice to have some really simple tutorials that show you how to do simple things.
We have a set of plugins that will integrate Meedio Essentials and Meedio HouseBot. They have been in a pre-release state for a while now but we have decided to release them as an open beta. They should appear in MAID within one or two weeks. I will post back here once they are available.
acheslow wrote:We have a set of plugins that will integrate Meedio Essentials and Meedio HouseBot. They have been in a pre-release state for a while now but we have decided to release them as an open beta. They should appear in MAID within one or two weeks. I will post back here once they are available.
I would appreciate that. What about simple turorials to get started? Like controlling something that doesnt require a hardware module?
acheslow wrote:It really depends on what it is you want to do. What specific problem are you trying to solve?
Im not sure where im going with this. But here would be some wish list items.
* intergrate housebot and essentials together
* Control pretty much anything in the house and outside the house
* Voice recognition. Commands like "Lights On" "Lights Off" "Dim Lights" Dim lights 50% .. how far away is that ? Is it possible now?
Things like that. I have to say just setting modules up to come on and off at different times, is not really something that rings my bell (so to speak)
But to be able to walk in and give a voice command.. Now were talking star trek meets 21st Century.. LOL
acheslow wrote:We have a set of plugins that will integrate Meedio Essentials and Meedio HouseBot. They have been in a pre-release state for a while now but we have decided to release them as an open beta. They should appear in MAID within one or two weeks. I will post back here once they are available.
YEA!!! can't wait
Will this beta come with a bi-directional PPC/PDA screen configuration to control Essentials like ToothControl???
acheslow wrote:We have a set of plugins that will integrate Meedio Essentials and Meedio HouseBot. They have been in a pre-release state for a while now but we have decided to release them as an open beta. They should appear in MAID within one or two weeks. I will post back here once they are available.
YEA!!! can't wait
Will this beta come with a bi-directional PPC/PDA screen configuration to control Essentials like ToothControl???
Oh, please... oh, please... oh, please!!
its almost too exciting to think in the next year this will be mainstream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is great news. I've been looking just for realtime status from housebot. Basicly a way to make esentials a software remote for housebot. I could care less about PDA control for now. This is perfect timing guys. I'll can't wait to see what it does.
