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- Price: Update $79.00 to buy
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.3.9/10.6/10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel/10.5.6 Intel/10.6 Intel
- Date added: November 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 417
- Downloads last week: 5
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Publisher's description
From Always Thinking :Thinking Home is the easiest-to-use, affordable home automation solution for Mac OS X and is now even better! v2.1 boasts a modern design that delivers performance without compromising ease of use. It is the only Mac app to store a schedule into an ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A)!
Thinking Home supports some of the most popular new hardware, including both PowerLinc V2 models, ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A) and more than 100 other models of gadgets and scores of USB serial adapters.
Version 2.1 is well-equipped to run 24-7 and make use of Mac-only things like speech, scripts, email, instant messaging and web access.
You're invited to try out Thinking Home 2.1 as a demo for free. Then compare to other leading Mac home automation software.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Stores your schedule into a controller so you can turn off your Mac.
- Setup Assistant to help you get started
- Gadget Guide with more than 100 models of hardware
- INSTEON and X-10 standards
- Events and Responders operate gadgets, open web pages, play audio, all kinds of actions
- Innovative Desktop Remote operates your gadgets directly from the Finder
- Sherlock plug-in for finding answers online
- Web access that fits seamlessly with Apple's built-in Personal Web Sharing
- Email and iChat/AOL Instant Messenger, even to cell phones
- Scripting with AppleScript and virtually any language you have installed (unix shell scripts, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
- Built-in voice commands and spoken announcements. You say "Turn on the living room lamp." and it does!
- English, Dutch and French localizations
- Logging with smart filtering
What's new in this version:
- Schedule Sets When going away on vacation, many people want a different schedule to be used. Instead of turning on the coffee maker, you may want a couple of lights turning on randomly for a more secure, lived-in look. Schedule Sets provide this convenience via a simple popup menu in the Schedules window.
- 1-Wire Affordable temperature monitoring is just one of the benefits that 1-Wire delivers. It's easier than ever to check the temperature of the water heater, greenhouse, win... see all new features
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