Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- Subject: Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 17:57:53 -0700
Hi, Rob--
From your post below, I found http://machomeautomation.com/
<http://machomeautomation.com/>, which appears to be selling XTension. Is this
the same product about which you wrote in 2014?
--Gil
> On Dec 4, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Rob Lewis <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I haven’t actually found the beginning of this thread, but I’d like to add a
> possibly relevant comment:
>
> For nigh onto 20 years now, I’ve been running my home automation system with
> a program called XTension (from shed.com <http://shed.com/>). Without
> launching into a sub-rant about how great XTension is, I’ll just note that it
> is completely AppleScript-based (not written in AppleScript, but set up so
> any event can fire a script). And years ago, the developers added the ability
> for web pages to run AppleScripts (including those having nothing to do with
> home automation).
>
> Now, home automation is a notoriously difficult nut to crack, mostly because
> every person is different and every home is different. It’s pretty much
> impossible to provide “canned” solutions for any but the simplest tasks.
> People who are serious about it basically have to script their own desired
> behaviors. And that’s where AppleScript really shines: it’s relatively
> easy—even for a non-programmer—to take someone else’s script and modify it to
> do exactly what you want. And of course the PC world has nothing like it.
>
> I’ve held my breath for years, wondering if/when Apple would finally pull the
> plug on this great technology (which is probably the single biggest reason
> I’ve stayed with the Mac platform). The recent signs of life have been a
> welcome surprise—it hardly seems Apple would continue to enhance something
> that was on the chopping block.
>
> Looking to the future, it will be most interesting to see how HomeKit
> evolves. I’ve been predicting/promoting the notion that an enhanced version
> of Automator could be the key that unlocks custom home automation for mere
> mortals. And of course, Automator can run AppleScripts! Get a few million
> people tinkering with this, and a certain percentage will move on to more
> advanced solutions like XTension.
>
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