Ironically, tell your friends your home is wired up for distributed media, weather-linked heating and general automated goodness, and they’ll still be more impressed by whatever swanky touchscreen remote you’ve spent untold hundreds on. Lagotek are hoping to save your pride and your wallet with their HIP Modes home control Sideshow gadget that runs on the relatively-affordable iPhone and iPod Touch.
Lagotek worked with Ikanos Consulting to get Vista’s Sideshow working on the Apple devices, using a technology they’ve called Go Gadgets. As a web-app you won’t need to hack your PMP or cellphone to get it running, and the same software works with Windows Mobile, Windows CE, and J2ME, and allows remote access to Windows SideShow gadgets via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or GPRS/EDGE/3G.
HIP Modes are Lagotek’s version of home automation macros, giving single-touch control of everything from lights and music through to temperature control, distributed video and security.
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This is great so far as it goes. Turning lights on and off is the first step – but this system doesn’t handle triggers and actions – the heart of every good home automation system. For example, can it turn the lights on when the car comes into the driveway? Or mute the TV when you receive a phone call?
I’m in the process of automating my entire home using the iPhone as a controller, and I’m blogging about the whole thing. Come check out my blog at http://MyiPhoneHome.com and see what you can do with a real home automation system!
Nice article, i have done the same function for Symbian OS Nokia Mobiles at
http://www.8051projects.info/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=818