Comments on: Home Zone beta 9

By: sandinak

sandinak — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:00:57 +0000

cool tool.. my requests.. are already requested.. except.. perhaps i can help with a leopard release if you need some support. Thanks for releasing this.

– b

By: macbug

macbug — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:05:46 +0000

I’ve had trouble with triggers activating while I am in the middle of working on my computer due to bluetooth dropping out periodically.

Perhaps triggers should only activate when there is first no activity on the keyboard, mouse, etc. within a specified period of time.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:23:32 +0000

Whoa. Nice app. I was toying with an idea like this myself, particularly for use with Synergy, and here this thing does everything for me. Glee! Many thanks!

I have two requests:
* Firstly, as people have pointed out, the network address entry field gets zapped periodically. Not sure why this happens, though it might be tied to the periodic polling.
* Secondly, it would be nice to have a local prefix detection option. That is to say, you’re in a zone when ifconfig/pcap/etc… report a network device that has an IP address in the range x.y.z.0/24.

Great job and keep up the good work.

By: gustavo

gustavo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:21:24 +0000

Hi Jonas, I just discovered your app. very nice! Some of the features I’d like to see are:

1. For Open file: give a hide option

2. Add a Close File option (to close certain applications)

3. Add a calendar option inside each zone (day of the week and time of the day):
So if I create a zone called home. I have two date/time sensitive behavior within that zone: one called home-office and another called called home-leisure so the triggers that take place are quite different. So If I fire up my machine on Tuesday morning my entourage calendar and newsreader will launch at startup up. If I fire up on Sunday morning my PandoraJam music app will fire up.
Also If I enter my office in Friday I can setup SAP to auto-launch because it’s the day I do my timesheet.

4. Add a connect to server (also give a hide option)
5. Add a Disconnect from server

6. Add a default webpage for internet settings (like Location X, but also more specifically definable by the calendar option)

7. Add Entourage integration (like Location X, but better!) with the following elements:

7a. Set the Send and Receive to specific accounts only For example form work I cannot connect to my personal email server, and from home I cannot connect to my office’s exchange server, can we have HomeZome make Entourage aware of that)
7b. Change default email account and smtp server based on HomeZone location
7c. Have the ‘work offline’ option available
7d. Turn on/off office reminders

8. Add an option to enable/disable Spaces

Thanks,

Gustavo

By: Von

Von — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:36:50 +0000

Home Zone is behaving very unpredictably for me. It will work for a couple days as I would expect and then it will appear to simply stop enabling and disabling zones. According to the logs it still sees triggers, but it doesn’t act on those triggers. I think the laptop going to sleep seems to trigger this behavior and Home Zone seems to end up stuck in a state where two Zones are enabled (the one I was in before sleep and the one I was in when it woke up). If I quit Home Zone and try to restart it, I will often have to try a number of times as it keeps dying. This is under Tiger (10.4.11).

By: JoeSwiz

JoeSwiz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:03:31 +0000

I really enjoy the possibilities of this software and I have been utilizing it and it has saved me some time. Thanks!! I enjoyed it so much I opened up Quartz Composer and made something for you…. I did notice that I could not enter in numeric characters into the “Before Trigger is disabled” box only the up & down arrows would work. Leopard 10.5.2, 2.16GHz 1GB

Joe

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:47:21 +0000

I’m using the current version of Home Zone with my iPhone and find that it works fine if I simply want to lock the screen when I walk away and unlock the screen when I return. However, if I try to execute any other command (pause iTunes, set IM status), Home Zone crashes and my screen saver flickers repeatedly.

By: Pär Ahrén

Pär Ahrén — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:04:50 +0000

Will there be a 10.5 version ?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:41:41 +0000

I’d really love to get this working in Leopard — is it possible for others to get access to the CVS?

By: Blake Helms

Blake Helms — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:43:48 +0000

I sent an email to the author inquiring the status of the project here is the response:

“I consider development paused. At the moment, Aurora is much more important to me, and when 4.0 is released I will continue to work on AppFresh. Home Zone has some technical problems (WiFi and Bluetooth polling) that very likely cannot be resolved in software, so I’m hesitant to continue to work on it.”