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Scott Goffman Posts: 111
9/7/2014
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Hi Chris,
I've been evaluating switching to CastleOS, and so far I'm really liking it. Coming from Girder (which is incredibly powerful, but with a terrible interface), CastleOS is a solid UI upgrade for me.
A few questions have come up that I haven't seen answers to on the forums:
1) How active is the development at this point? I see a lot of feature reqs answered with "coming soon!", but the last Core version was from 2013.
2) Is the 30-day eval version lacking any features that would be enabled in the full version? I.e., am I testing with every feature available?
3) How do you handle IR controls? Your demo video shows turning on/off IR-controlled devices, but I don't see anything in the UI for that. Do you use Insteon-to-IR adapters? My current setup uses USB-UIRT transmitters on each room's mini-PC, does CastleOS support something similar to that?
4) Is the scripting system actually functional? I can't find any info on it.
Thanks!
-Scott
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Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390
9/8/2014
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Hi Scott! I'd be happy to answer your questions, and welcome aboard!
Development is active daily. Last month we released an update to the Kinect Service (under the beta section on the download page, but it's release quality). Later this month we'll be releasing a MAJOR update to the Core Service. Improved UI, new device support, new protocol support, and other updates.
The 30-day trial includes all features. When the 30 days are up, the app will still run, but you won't be able to control any devices.
We haven't released our IR support yet, but we do currently support DirecTV, Plex, XMBC, and MediaBrowser for video playback.
Scripting was released with the Kinect Service, and will also be included in the Core Service update. In the Kinect Service, you can create a custom voice command that runs a custom C# script - you can pretty much do anything that C# allows you to do.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
Thanks,
Chris
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Scott Goffman Posts: 111
9/8/2014
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Excellent, thanks for the info! I'm looking forward to being able to use C# for scripting (much better than having to use LUA, which I can't stand).
What kind of hardware are you using for your IR development? Are you sending the IR codes from the CastleOS Core, or from local Kinect apps?
-Scott
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