"Premise Systems ... pronounced dead by its partners"

You need to do some serious penance for such evil thoughts

Clearly the Redmondian plan is for Vista Media Center to control all thought. But since home automation is a niche market and the folks seem to like playing with hardware and software, wouldn't Linux be a natural match?

OK. I said a Father Babbage, three Hail Lisa's and a Glory BeOS.

.... Marc Marc_F_Hult

Yes, I have worked with Premise and it looked good, very good. But, as always, a product is ultimately only as good as it's support.

I have switched to Charmed Quark 's CQC package. That product has come a long way in just the last year. and, most importantly ... Support is second to none.

They come from a audio home-theater background, but are reorienting themselves for the Home automation market, and HT market.

They are squarely aimed at the custom installers, as opposed to HomeSeer, who caters more to the DIY crowd. (But diy'ers are welcome at cqc)

I would suggest to everybody to check it out:

Stefan Decuypere