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    It's pretty darn clost to the cost of Crestron by the time you're done with it. I also HATE the way they deal with their license: for every zone you add, you have to have a license, which means more money. Everything you add is this way: Lights, thermostats, etc.

    Given the cost and the hassle, I'd move towards Crestron or AMX before this. We did Control4 simply because it's a line with much of the same stuff but with easier programming. It's not Crestron but in my market there's notmuch call for that level of automation.
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    I hear they (liftware) are bringing back Jimmy Hendrix from the dead for a Concert at CEDIA. They didn't know what to do with all that investment money.
    Then again, I could be wrong.
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    Re: Life-ware

    Quote Originally Posted by COMediaSys
    It's pretty darn clost to the cost of Crestron by the time you're done with it. I also HATE the way they deal with their license: for every zone you add, you have to have a license, which means more money. Everything you add is this way: Lights, thermostats, etc.
    Not true. The license is sold in banks which can be bought to cover nearly any level of automation. A simple system can be very inexpensive and a complex system can get very expensive. There have been many changes to Life/Ware over the last 12 months. If you looked at Life/Ware a year ago you owe it to yourself to take another look. There are so many misconstrued facts about Life/Ware out there that I could get into this for days. I prefer not to so I can only suggest that you get the facts and an understanding of their platform before making a decision based on all of the uneducated posts you have read regarding the product.
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    I stand corrected then -3 months later

    Explain a bit further then. What do you mean by "banks"?

    I would say that any "simple" system would be relatively inexpensive and any complicated system could be expensive regardless of the platform.
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    Banks are groups of devices which are bought depending on the expected level of the system. If you buy a bank of 60, you can control 60 devices. If you later need more, you can add a bank of 8, 20,60, etc.
    You can purchase LifeWare as a standalone, (no media centers) and you will find it to be relativly inexpensive. As for the platform, It is a Microsoft NTFS platform (XP). What most people dont understand is that it is only a platform and not an entire operating system. Its a method of information transportation and thats it.
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    I can honestly say, I'm now completely confused.

    I thought lifeware was a MS Media Center based product?

    Now media center is just a media provider and it actually runs the core OS on another platform?

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    That is correct. Media center is just an extension of Life/Ware and not the controller.
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    Well, I have been told that the license fee for a system I installed (if it would have been a Lifeware controlled system) with approx. 300 'devices' would have been around 40k retail. Without hardware. Just for the software. FYI.
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    Re: Life-ware

    Quote Originally Posted by WhiteVan Lifestyle
    Banks are groups of devices which are bought depending on the expected level of the system. If you buy a bank of 60, you can control 60 devices. If you later need more, you can add a bank of 8, 20,60, etc.
    This is still a software license model. You buy license's for the number of devices you have. AMX/Crestron/C4/HomeLogic, none of them do this.

    You can purchase LifeWare as a standalone, (no media centers) and you will find it to be relativly inexpensive. As for the platform, It is a Microsoft NTFS platform (XP). What most people dont understand is that it is only a platform and not an entire operating system. Its a method of information transportation and thats it.
    It still runs on a PC though. Again, AMX/Crestron/C4/HomeLogic have dedicated processors that are built to be processors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyAngelo
    This is still a software license model. You buy license's for the number of devices you have. AMX/Crestron/C4/HomeLogic, none of them do this.
    Agreed!

    It still runs on a PC though. Again, AMX/Crestron/C4/HomeLogic have dedicated processors that are built to be processors.
    Agreed again.
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