Leading up to the announcement of the new 9.7″ Apple tablet, we at CommandFusion were only thinking about the home automation possibilities and anticipating the finer details regarding getting our software on such a brilliant (and affordable!) home automation interface.

After digging through the information, we discovered that our current iPhone app (CF iViewer) will also work on the iPad (albeit in a ‘2x scaled’ mode at best). But rest assured, we are working on an update for iViewer that will work on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad, utilizing the full screen real estate for whichever device it’s running on.

Our guiDesigner software is already capable of creating interfaces for any screen size, including the 1024×768 resolution of the iPad. So as soon as the iPad is available, our software won’t be far behind.

As a dedicated home automation interface, the $499 iPad (16GB + WiFi only) running our iViewer software makes for an excellent experience, at a price point never before possible.

m..myhome is looking for partners in the USA. Please contact Bernhard from Nomos for more information.

guiDesigner has been updated with a few fixes and improvements also. Download guiDesigner or see the release notes from our downloads page.

No longer are you restricted to one way control of lower-end systems, you can now get full 2 way control with feedback from your home automation devices, even if you don’t have a Crestron or AMX system. CommandFusion has introduced the ability to parse feedback from ANY ethernet system, using the power of regular expressions.

So now you can use commands, macros and feedback parsing to control your hardware and view feedback directly on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

The new releases also introduce a number of new features, so please check the release notes for iViewer in our new wiki, and the release notes for guiDesigner (PDF).

Our wiki has just been released to the public and is full of all kinds of helpful information. We are adding new content daily, and hope that many of our loyal customers will add their two cents to the wiki as well.

Remember, our prices are always charged in AUD through our payment processing with GuiLink. So the actual USD price will fluctuate with the exchange rates - we simply advertise a USD price as its the most suitable for international pricing. Your credit card statements will show the purchase is from GUILINK.

The next version of iViewer (v3.0.1) has been submitted to the App Store and is awaiting approval - keep a lookout for it, as well as an accompanying guiDesigner release.

The interface makes full use of the iViewer dynamic list capabilities, removing the need to cycle through pages of list data. Instead an intuitive flick of the finger is all that’s needed to scroll through the lists.

The guiDesigner templates for iPhone include all the images required for the design, as well as pre-created themes and pages of buttons, sliders, etc so that you can create a custom layout for your clients very quickly.

Currently only Glazed, Aquatica, Luster and the new Aphotic design have been released for iPhone, but more will be released in the coming days. So check back often if you are awaiting an iPhone release of one of the other designs.

For a mere $129 AUD, you can purchase one of GuiLink’s guiDesigner templates for iPhone/iPod Touch and use it on as many projects as you like. Saving you countless hours of work for a professional result.

Checkout www.guilink.com/products/iphone for more!

In the video, you can see a quick demo on how to use custom commands in guiDesigner to control any device over TCP or UDP. We are using a GlobalCache GC-100-12 in the video, but any device with an ethernet protocol can be controlled directly from your iPhone using our software.

Version 2.0 brings with it a whole range of changes, including:

Check the release notes for more information on the new version.

As always, guiDesigner requires the .NET 2.0 Framework to be installed.

Download guiDesigner 2.0, and the updated iViewer User Guide PDF from our Downloads Page to get started.

See iViewer in action at the following booths:
M..MyHome - Hall 1, Stand 1K61 (deToma)
www.macmyhome.de

Comm-Tec - Hall 2, Stand A54
www.comm-tec.de

These two companies are demonstrating the use of iViewer with their hardware/software systems, showing just how flexible iViewer really is! So if you are going to be at the show, please go take a look!