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There's been a huge amount of progress from James Traynor recently with new versions of many of his free xAP Home Automation applications being released...

"There have been quite a few updates over the last few weeks to various applications from mi4.biz including one brand new application.

xAP News3 has been upgraded to support Atom news feeds and, as can be seen in the screenshot, can now group news feeds together. This allows for a much more useful and clearer display of news and helps make new news items get your attention.

xAP Floorplan has had a huge set of new features added but the big new feature is the ability to add your own scripted web pages so you can use it to control and display in any way you like. Other new items include the use of Google maps to help set your lat/long, improved xPL bridging and many more script functions...

HomeSeer have just released details of their new Z-Seer software. This Z-Wave diagnostics tool is aimed at installers and home owners alike and is due to be released later this month...

"Bedford, NH - HomeSeer Technologies announces its new "Z-Seer" software for advanced Z-Wave network analysis and troubleshooting. Z-Seer is designed to help installers and homeowners quickly diagnose and troubleshoot Z-Wave networks and will be the first tool of its type to ship! With Z-Seer, users can quickly and easily locate and display network problems and connectivity statistics.

"The biggest challenges in Z-Wave network setup have been to optimize the network for best performance and identify the problem spots", states Richard Helmke, HomeSeer president. "Until now, Z-Wave troubleshooting has been a tedious 'trial and error' process. However, with the release of our handheld Z-Troller™ last month the upcoming release of Z-Seer later this month, we've taken the guesswork out of these challenges!" adds Helmke…

"Acentient Software has just released v1.02 of Adaptive Home Logic, a new multi-purpose home automation application for Windows XP.

This new program, which can interface with many home automation peripherals, generic serial devices and parallel input / output boards, integrates many advanced features to offer wide ranging flexibility within an easy to use and understand application.

Featuring Scheduling / Conditional Events, 2-way Speech, Remote Control & Reporting (Internet / Amateur Radio), Digital I/O, Serial Data (RS-232 / RS-485), X10, File Data, E-Mail Alerts, Sunrise / Sunset, Screen Overlay Scenes, Data Logging + more...

Idratek have released V20 of their Cortex software. Amongst the many improvements and additional features are support for Rako products, SMS messaging via Skype, new video capture and management capabilities and two new hardware modules..