Indigo 2.0 review

Indigo is a home control server that integrates X10 hardware devices.

License: Trial OS: Mac OS X File size: 6765K Developer: Perceptive Automation, LLC. Buy Now Price: $89.00 Updated: 10 Jan 2007

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Indigo is a home control server that integrates X10 hardware devices. Indigo was developed from the ground up to be a robust, Mac OS X-native, home control server.

With Indigo you can automate your lights, appliances, sprinkler system, and more! Now you can "warm up the hot tub" before you even leave the office.
You can even control Indigo via email from your cellphone or the office.

Here are some key features of "Indigo":
Remotely control lights, fans, appliances, sprinkler systems, etc., from a variety of handheld remote controls (including the X10 “Entertainment Anywhere” remote control!)
Remotely control any appliance or light, even your hot tub, from your mobile phone by sending Indigo an email, by using a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone and Salling Clicker, or by using the intuitive Ovolab Phlink support.
Remotely control iTunes and dozens of other applications
Create unlimited sprinkler schedules
Incorporate motion detectors to turn on lights or other devices
Automatically send emails based on events, like power failure or motion detection
Automatically turn on landscape or holiday lighting at sunset and off at sunrise
Create different lighting scenes, for example “Party,” “Movie,” “Sleeping,” “Away,” for perfect multi-room lighting levels at the touch of a button
Incredible flexibility for thousands of other uses -- use your imagination!

Limitations:
30 days trial.

Requirements:
X10 Interface (either PowerLinc 1132U/CU (USB), ActiveHome Pro (CM15A), PowerLinc 1132A (Serial), ActiveHome (CM11), or LynX-PLC).

What's New:
Added native support for EZRain, IrrMaster, IrrMaster Pro, Rain8, and Rain8II.
Improved interface communication failure detection.
Fixed potential server hang when reset interface connections action executes.
Fixed problem rendering Control Page 1-bit grayscale PNG images.
Fixed problem with device states not updating in an optimal order.
Fixed bug that caused stateless Devices (like motion detectors) to display in remote UI.
Added all relay device types to the devices popup control inside the Trigger Action _Different Brightness Level_ type.
Renamed action type "Send Device Action" to "Control Light / Appliance."
Change AppleScript modifyDevice type to controlLightOrAppliance.
Added Control Page icons: ceiling fan light, christmas tree, desk fan.
Improved appearance of sample database's floor plan Control Page.