[Link: cocoontech.com]

Taken from the post above...

" Gang, the Ocelot is an amazing product... I love mine. Electron's right on the money about being able to offload a lot of chores to the Ocelot. Its response time is much faster than PC-based automation.

Here's the stuff the Ocelot can't do that HomeSeer can (not a complete list):

- Text to speech and VR, but you can use pre-recorded responses with the speak-easy module.
- Zwave, but there's a Zwave module in the works
- Web access, probably never will
- Essentially limited to X10, IR and relay-controlled stuff.... but that's a lot of stuff!

Visit ADI's message board, and you'll see just how complex some of the folks' setups are.

The Ocelot is a bit harder to program than HomeSeer is, and it's (usually) not possible just to "drop-in" someone else's program like you can "drop=in" many HS scripts that others write.

Since most people think that the Ocelot is just an IR transceiver, here are some of the things it can do that a simple IR transceiver can't (again, not an all inclusive list)

- Hold up to 2048 lines of program
- control low voltage relays (via SECU16 module)
- control high voltage relays (via RLY8XA module)
- control X10 devices (via PSC05 or other X10 interface)
- sense digital or analog relays and output devices (via SECU16 and/or SECU16I modules)
- interface with RS232/485 devices (via serial bobcat)
- sense temperature (via temp bobcat and/or analog sensor & SECU)
- sense light level (via light bobcat and/or analog sensor & SECU)
- sense humidity (via humidity bobcat and/or analog sensor & SECU)
- Can daisy chain multiple Ocelots and/or Leopards (touchscreen version) to increase lines of programing available
- Can have multiple IR-out zones (via SECU16IR modules) or IR-in zones (via additional Ocelots and Leopards)
- Record and playback sounds (via speakeasy module)

Now here's how I'm using mine: "

Read on to find out how jrfuda is using his :)

They even talk about monitoring a garage door ;)
Search that site using "ocelot" to grab a bunch more information about this unique device. Or better yet, follow the advice above and search the ADI forums.

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