Re: Sal
Re: Sal
- Subject: Re: Sal
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:27:48 -0700
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID643ukqTbx3712X32
> On Nov 17, 2016, at 12:18:PM, Rob Lewis <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I’ve been a Home Automation hobbyist for 20+ years, with a system based on the Mac program XTension, which is totally AppleScript-driven.
>
> The problem with HA in general—what has kept it from going mainstream—is that programming things to behave the way you want is hard. For me and quite a few others, AppleScript was an enabling technology.
>
> Now it seems to be dawning on Apple that Home Automation is going to be a big market. As I’ve been saying for years, the company has the basis for a killer HA system in Automator. Enhancing it to make it easy to set up scripts to control your system could break the logjam. I don’t know why they can’t see this.
>
> I’m worried.
I'm still waiting (since the Apple }{e) for the Mac to support the X-10 family.
Fort Collins, CO
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