Dean Roddey
29-01-2005, 04:47 PM
After the 1.3.5 release was out, it was discovered that a few people's
systems, for reasons not totally understood, would return incorrect host
names when doing reverse name resolution (converting from a numeric address
to a host name.) This would prevent all the CQC apps from finding each
other, because CQC was depending on reverse name resolution in a key place.
This dependence has been removed in a new 1.3.6 release, and that problem
should not show up anymore. Since we had to do a new release, we also took
the opportunity to fix a few small things that had been missed in the 1.3.5
release. And the device drivers that came out after 1.3.5, and were
therefore separately downloadable, were moved officially into the new
release.
If you are running 1.3.5, there is no immediate pressing need to upgrade to
1.3.6. But, it would be nice if you could do so at some point when it is
convenient for you, since it does have some more fixes and will insure that
if you should change your network configuration that, should you change your
network configuration in some way, that this name resolution problem will
not pop up for you.
-------------------------------------
Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com
"Dean Roddey" <droddey@charmedquark.com> wrote in message
news:yppDd.8903$5R.4436@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com ...
> Charmed Quark Systems (www.charmedquark.com) is proud to announce the
> 1.3.5 release of CQC (the Charmed Quark Controller), its software based
> control and automation system. CQC is the brains that supplement the brawn
> of your PC network, to create a powerful, secure, network distributed,
> highly visual, and highly robust system for management of hardware devices
> and software applications. With the addition of the needed ports (IR,
> serial, contact, etc...) to a general purpose PC, CQC can provide you with
> control and automation services on par with far more expensive traditional
> automation systems. Combined with its strong home theater front end
> services, which make excellent use of the strengths of PC graphics, CQC is
> a one stop shopping system that often requires the manual integration of
> three or more packages in competing products. CQC supports the Windows XP,
> Windows 2000 and Windows Server family of operating systems, with others
> coming.
>
> Here is the announcement thread on the Charmed Quark support forum if you
> want more info:
>
> http://www.charmedquark.com/www2/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=4091&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
>
> If you just want to evaluate CQC and see what it can do and how it does
> it, without having to first figure out how to connect it to your devices,
> then you can just download it and install it and go through the 'Quick
> Tutorial' which uses a device simulator to simulate a small set of
> devices. So don't have to have any devices actually connected in order to
> do the whole tutorial. Using the device simulator the tutorial can take
> you through all of the major features of the system without your having to
> figure out how to hook it up to any of your devices first. So it's pretty
> quick and simple to go through and get an understanding of what CQC does
> and how. CQC has a 30 day trial period, so you have plenty of time to
> evaluate it and see if it works for you.
>
> On the web site, go to the Try/But menu item, then the Try It section. The
> product download link is there, as well as the link to the Quick Tutorial
> document. If you want more high level info before actually diving in
> physically, in then in the Documentation section, check out the Overview
> and Using CQC documents.
>
> * The reason for posting this here is that the bulk of CQC's supported
> devices are in the home theater arena, so it is a quite inexpensive way to
> create a very high quality automation scenario for your home theater, for
> a fraction of the price of a Crestron system. For instance, a HushPC with
> an inexpensive 15" touch screen and a VIA mini-ITX board, combined with
> CQC make a great theater automation system, and it can control much more
> if you want to do so. It's fanless so no noise even if it's sitting right
> beside you.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Dean Roddey
> Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
> www.charmedquark.com
>
systems, for reasons not totally understood, would return incorrect host
names when doing reverse name resolution (converting from a numeric address
to a host name.) This would prevent all the CQC apps from finding each
other, because CQC was depending on reverse name resolution in a key place.
This dependence has been removed in a new 1.3.6 release, and that problem
should not show up anymore. Since we had to do a new release, we also took
the opportunity to fix a few small things that had been missed in the 1.3.5
release. And the device drivers that came out after 1.3.5, and were
therefore separately downloadable, were moved officially into the new
release.
If you are running 1.3.5, there is no immediate pressing need to upgrade to
1.3.6. But, it would be nice if you could do so at some point when it is
convenient for you, since it does have some more fixes and will insure that
if you should change your network configuration that, should you change your
network configuration in some way, that this name resolution problem will
not pop up for you.
-------------------------------------
Dean Roddey
Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
www.charmedquark.com
"Dean Roddey" <droddey@charmedquark.com> wrote in message
news:yppDd.8903$5R.4436@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com ...
> Charmed Quark Systems (www.charmedquark.com) is proud to announce the
> 1.3.5 release of CQC (the Charmed Quark Controller), its software based
> control and automation system. CQC is the brains that supplement the brawn
> of your PC network, to create a powerful, secure, network distributed,
> highly visual, and highly robust system for management of hardware devices
> and software applications. With the addition of the needed ports (IR,
> serial, contact, etc...) to a general purpose PC, CQC can provide you with
> control and automation services on par with far more expensive traditional
> automation systems. Combined with its strong home theater front end
> services, which make excellent use of the strengths of PC graphics, CQC is
> a one stop shopping system that often requires the manual integration of
> three or more packages in competing products. CQC supports the Windows XP,
> Windows 2000 and Windows Server family of operating systems, with others
> coming.
>
> Here is the announcement thread on the Charmed Quark support forum if you
> want more info:
>
> http://www.charmedquark.com/www2/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=4091&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
>
> If you just want to evaluate CQC and see what it can do and how it does
> it, without having to first figure out how to connect it to your devices,
> then you can just download it and install it and go through the 'Quick
> Tutorial' which uses a device simulator to simulate a small set of
> devices. So don't have to have any devices actually connected in order to
> do the whole tutorial. Using the device simulator the tutorial can take
> you through all of the major features of the system without your having to
> figure out how to hook it up to any of your devices first. So it's pretty
> quick and simple to go through and get an understanding of what CQC does
> and how. CQC has a 30 day trial period, so you have plenty of time to
> evaluate it and see if it works for you.
>
> On the web site, go to the Try/But menu item, then the Try It section. The
> product download link is there, as well as the link to the Quick Tutorial
> document. If you want more high level info before actually diving in
> physically, in then in the Documentation section, check out the Overview
> and Using CQC documents.
>
> * The reason for posting this here is that the bulk of CQC's supported
> devices are in the home theater arena, so it is a quite inexpensive way to
> create a very high quality automation scenario for your home theater, for
> a fraction of the price of a Crestron system. For instance, a HushPC with
> an inexpensive 15" touch screen and a VIA mini-ITX board, combined with
> CQC make a great theater automation system, and it can control much more
> if you want to do so. It's fanless so no noise even if it's sitting right
> beside you.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Dean Roddey
> Chairman/CTO, Charmed Quark Systems
> www.charmedquark.com
>