Homeseer is a Home Automation package that's been around for many years and has developed into a very stable, feature rich application. Has very good end user support and a multitude of plugins, scripts and enhancements. Homeseer is the main 'brains' of my system and does most of the event handling.

 

Mainlobby started as a flash based front end and has evolved into a strong home automation package in it's own right. As I use Homeseer for most of these tasks, Mainlobby (and it's server component MLServer) remain as the front end and media management component.

 

Airpanels were develeoped as part of the short lived Microsoft SMartdisplay program. These are basically large panel devices running a custom version of Windows CE to launch a remote desktop connection (RDP) to any Windows Xp Pro PC.  Mine connect to a dedicated server running a hacked version on Win XP pro that allows 3 concurrent remote desktop sessions.  I'm always on the lookout for replacements to the Airpanels for a couple of reasons. Mine are getting old and the battery life is degraded. RDP has it's own limitations with live video and even some websites. Not yet found anything which fits this role.