Home Automation Control via iPod Touch

The following video tutorials demonstrate how to connect your home automation system to an iPod touch with the help of the program CommandFusion iViewer. The iViewer is an application for iPad, iPhone or iPod touch that communicates over TCP/IP with various hardware and software such as home automation systems.

Part 1: Create a Visualisation Project

In part 1 we create a visualisation project for our home automation system with the visualisation software agentilo®. The project contains two datapoints (binary and analog).

Part 2: Create a Graphical Interface For the iPod

Part 2 shows how to create a GUI for the iPod touch. For this purpose, the application GuiDesigner must be installed on your computer. The finished GUI file can be loaded into the iPod via TCP/IP.

Part 3: Connect iPod to the Visualisation System

In part 3 we show how to connect the iPod to the Agentilo visualisation software.

Requirements

• CommandFusion guiDesigner
• CommandFusion iViewer
• iPhone or iPod touch with 2.0 firmware or above
• PC (or Mac) running Windows XP
• .NET 2.0 Framework
• WiFi network with internet access
• iTunes Store account.

The application guiDesigner can be downloaded from the website of the company CommandFusion. The application iViewer is available exclusively from Apple's App Store. To download it into the iPod, an iTunes store account is required. For further information, please visit the CommandFusion website at http://www.commandfusion.com/.