[maemo-developers] N800 as a home automation/monitoring remote

[From: David Greaves]

John Holmblad wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> as a point of reference you might want to talk to someone on the team at Elan
> who have done this with the N800. Here is the url to the www page of some PR
> from 2007 about their use of the N800:
> 
> 
> http://www.cepro.com/article/using_nokia_n800_elan_n800_combines_web_connectivity_with_home_control/
> 
> 
> and here is the url to their www site:
> 
> http://www.elanhomesystems.com/productdetail.asp?id=1

>From the website:
Sorry, you can’t bring your own N800 to the party. Proprietary software in the
ELAN N800 is not compatible with other Nokia N800 or Web tablet models purchased
elsewhere.

Hmmm - sounds *very* dodgy wrt OS licensing...

<shrug>

>From what I've seen of the commercial HA crowd they are terrible at closing up
their protocols in order to minimise compatibility and enforce lock-in. I guess
this is another of those.

David