User:RTinker/HomeSeer

HomeSeer is a commercial, PC Based, home automation software package. Originally called "AutoHome" by KeWare Software, the name was changed to HomeSeer by HomeSeer Technologies, LLC around 1998. HomeSeer was founded by Richard Helmke to solve his own needs for a better control program for his power line communication based X10 devices.

HomeSeer was designed very early on to support having a built-in web server and was the first product of its kind to achieve this, allowing users to control the devices in their home, via the internet, from anywhere in the world.

HomeSeer quickly grew to support other home automation technologies including infrared, and HVAC. By 1999 support for running scripts, which were created/edited by the users, and supported several scripting languages such as VBScript, JavaScript, and Perl.

In 2003, HomeSeer became the first product of its kind to support Z-Wave, a new wireless control technology developed by Zensys and then later backed and supported by the Z-Wave Alliance.

Features

 * Remote Control
 * Voice Recognition
 * Built-In Web Server
 * E-mail
 * Touchscreen devices
 * Devices, created to represent control elements (real and virtual)
 * Events, which provide macro, scheduled, or triggerable actions to be performed.
 * Event triggers can be based upon external stimuli, date/time, or manually triggered using remote control or another event.
 * Event conditions can be placed on the triggers of events to further control event execution.
 * Event actions are a list of commands to be carried out when the event is run or triggered.
 * Scripts, which are triggerable from events, can be used to provide further control if necessary over what can be done with the point-and-click HTML based interface provided by the built-in web server.
 * Open Plug-In architecture allows HomeSeer Technologies, 3rd parties, or users to extend the capabilities of the product by interfacing it with other technologies or software packages.