→ Home Zone beta 2
Thanks for your feedback on the first beta. Today I made Home Zone a lot more flexible:
- You can define enter and leave actions for multiple zones, which can be triggered my multiple networks (all of them or any of them)
- You can enter custom ESSID names to get your invisible Airport network working (I guess you’ll have to be connected to that network to enable that zone, though)
- You can select bluetooth devices as a zone trigger (only visible devices, I’ll see if I can support invisible but paired devices)
- Home Zone will leave all zones when terminating, thereby re-enabling your password no matter what networks are visible.
As always, I appreciate your feedback. There’s obviously room for adding lots of cool actions now (besides enabling or disabling the screen saver password) or refining the zone triggers (like checking the MAC address of the AP) and several other things… stay tuned.
The refresh interval is 15 seconds for Airport networks and 60 seconds for Bluetooth devices, BTW (check the small spinner in the configuration window). Oh, and the log window shows you when triggers and zones become (un-)available, so make sure to check this if something goes wrong.
February 9th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
thanks for the very cool beta! it is absoultly awesome!
i am missing a feature of hiding the menubar icon.
thanks again!
February 9th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
love the program! There are countless possibilities for what this app could be used for. A feature I’d love to see added in the near future is the ability to change your computer’s location (and thus proxy settings) based on what Airport network you’ve joined.
Keep up the good work!
February 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Support for changing network profiles will definitely be added soon, among other things. I also thought of optionally removing the menu bar icon, as it might be good to not give others a clue what’s running there. You could then access the configuration dialog by opening the Home Zone application again. Also on my mind and planned next: Locking keychains, opening arbitrary files/applications/URLs, supporting Airport networks only when they’re connected and/or have the right base station ID and Growl notifications.
February 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Very cool little app. Unfortunately mt Razr is seen as a “computer” by Bluetooth and thus not available in the Home Zone menu
February 9th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I launch Home Zone, the menu appears, but all the items are greyed out. I am running a MacBook Pro (Core Duo) with 2 Gig RAM, MacOS 10.4.8.
February 9th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
sehr schönes programm! im moment wird nur mein netzwerk abundzu als nicht verfügbar angezeigt… aber es wird bestimmt noch besser!
February 9th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Dude – you rock. I am security-conscious/paranoid and I want screen saver password enabled whenever I’m in public. But it gets to be a bummer around my room at college.
February 10th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Hey,
sehr geniale Programm-Idee.
Allerdings stürzt das Tool ab, sobald eine WLAN Connection vorhanden ist. D.h. wenn AirPort an ist, dann stürzt das Programm einige Sekunden nach dem Start ab. Wenn ich AirPort deaktiviere, dann läuft es, bis ich AirPort aktiviere und eine Connection aufgebaut ist.
Die Konfiguration hier ist ein MacBook, mein WLAN WPA2 verschlüsselt. Hier sind noch viele weitere WLANs von Nachbarn usw. verfügbar. Eines enthält im Namen Sonderzeichen (ß), die Mac OS nicht korrekt anzeigt. Könnte das ein Ansatz für die Programmabstürze sein?
Viele Grüße, Mats
March 13th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Can you make this for leopard OS 10.5
i hear the program is great but i have OS 10.5 on all my computers
thanks, i would definitely use the program if it were for leopard.