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HomeLogic offers an unique possibility to play with its iPhone/iPod Touch application. It provides a full control of HomeLogic home automation system from any place in the world where WiFi or 3G connection exists. More over you shouldn’t spend money to buy and install the system (at least know). In opposition to that HomeLogic grants an access to the demo system. So, you’ll see how it works in practice.

By the way, after reading an information about HomeLogic home control system and viewing its screenshots, personally I like it. It’d be nice to hear opinion about it from people who own the system or at least test it.

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Iridium Mobile offers its software Iridium to control AMX systems using iPhone/iPod Touch or Windows Mobile smartphone for free. Just leave your opinion about it on the company forum. So, don’t miss that offer to use Iridium with real system.

Also the Iridium Mobile created English version of its web site. If you’re interesting you can know more about that Russian software.

iVDR turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into stylish remote control for your Video Disk Recorder (VDR). It allows to see EPG, set timers and manage records. Additionally you can watch stream from VDR directly on your Apple smartphone. It might be useful if you away from home but would like to see the game of your favourite football team, for example. Sure to do that you should be connected to the Internet via WiFi and your VDR box should be accessible outside.

The iVDR is written on Perl and provides web interface to VDR adopted to iPhone and iPod Touch. It has a simple config file where you can specify VDR connection parameters and setup permissions for the iVDR access. Currently iVDR is available on English and German. But it’s very easy to translate its interface to your language. If you have ability to do that just send translated lang.pack file to the iVDR author to include it in the next release.

Press release

SmartUnity home automation system application for an iPhone called «iSmartHouse» is available on the Apple Store. Download it for free and set up a demo account using these settings:

• FTP: vpn.intelvision.ru
• login: guest
• password: guest

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Russian company Iridium Mobile offers a way to use iPhone or iPod Touch as AMX control panel. The controller recognizes iPhone with Iridium client as normal AMX control panel offering all its functions. As result the consumer can get information and manage all devices in the system from any place in the world where exists one of the following communication services – EDGE, GPRS, 3G or WiFi.

Design of GUI for AMX iPhone client is done in the TP Designer. And them it’s just converted into iPhone code. So, the engineers shouldn’t study iPhone API to modify or create a new GUI skin. Except AMX iPhone client the company is going add integration with Beckhoff, EIB, CBus and Legos controllers. Moreover, theoretically Iridium supports any TCP/UDP based controller. Additionally, Iridium Mobile offers AMX client for Windows Mobile smartphones and for PC/UMPC/netbook/notebook run Windows XP.

The recommended prices for Iridium AMX client are following: €1000 for iPhone, €800 for Windows Mobile and €500 for WinXP.