We just put out the first preview release of the PPC support. It's quite useful, and Mark is running his system with it now. It just needs to banged on in the real world to wring out glitches. No matter how much you test, real customers are the ultimate abuse test.

The PPC talks to CQC via the network and CQC does all the control. That control could be of IR devices, serial devices, socket, Z-Wave, USB, etc..., whatever devices you have under CQC control. So the PPC (or other .Net device) is just a graphical user interface device, it doesn't do any actual control.

It's fully two way for those devices that CQC is controlling that provide feedback, so you can see the status of devices on the .Net viewer just as you can on the main CQC interface viewer.

I don't have a particular recommendation. You can sign up on the CQC support forum (link at the bottom of the page) and ask about that. There are other folks who are hipper on that kind of thing that moi.

Here are some snaps of users interfaces that Mark, the guy writing the .Net Viewer, created for his own system. Note that the look and feel of these is totally arbitrary. You can use any images and create whatever look you want.




The version of the .Net framework that runs on these very small devices doesn't support source alpha blending, so you can see a little jaggedness on the edges of the buttons and such. That's not an issue on devices that support that kind of blending.

Here are some snaps of some user interfaces for a standard sized device, these particular ones are from my own system:




They are reduced in size and quality for easier downloading. These are all done with images that ship with the product.

Here are some that show off the upcoming media support: