That Burning Pricing Question

[S Pittaway]

i have to agree.

[samgreco]

Trust me. The thought of spending $500 or $600 or whatever is not ultimately appealing to me. But I am tired of trying to piece together a coherent system from all of the free or almost free stuff out there.

My stuff is all ebay specials as well. Including 4 (one is a spare) of those amps (Thanks rembetis ). If I hadn't been a manufacturer's rep for a bunch of audio companies, I wouldn't have all of the ceiling speakers I have either.

I'm finding that my time is worth money. I just started a new business and need to devote as much time to that as I can. Hence my "imaptience." Plus the WAF is non-existant. I really don't like the "So how do I play music?" questions anymore .

Wayne123 - I have been using Premise as well. The backend is freakin' brilliant. Unfortunately, the front-end sucks pond water. And since it's unsupported and now VERY old code, it's getting fairly limited in it's usefulness. And I can't code AT ALL.

So bottom line, I don't WANT to spend $625, but I have 5 days left to get that "deal". And my frustration level is getting so high that it starting to seem reasonable.

[S Pittaway]

Having reread

If users here have a home theater system, PC, hard drives, touch screens, DSL, etc. and plenty of free time to devote to this website how poor can they be

I guess that it shows which ay the pricing is going to go.

I also think it shows a serious mis-reading of the current user base.

If you read the forum, its pretty clear that most of the people active here are doing there ht stuff on the cheap, they dont mnd investing some time and effort to do it but CQ type prices (let alone the others) are not going to be affordable.

hell, i couldnt sped £500 on a new HTPC this month because my car need servicing and the wifes needs insuring...

Personally, i only use xlobby has a media front end, so the home automation justifications of xxxx bucks goes out of the window.


another problem that i have is that i can code, i started writing a basic front end then tried xlobby. it did most of what i wanted and i could hack it to do the rest. steve tended to patch things that were seriusoly wrong and it got by.

If its going to be to expensive, i will end up being left high and dry. the current (free) version has a lot of holes in it and i might not afford the retail version.

I will effectively have wasted a years work on nothing. if i hadent pissed arround with xlobby i would have a good chunk done by now

time is important, thats why the pricing is such an important question.

[Marbles_00]

We have kept everyone's comments on the forum, good or bad intact, unlike other companies that remove post's they dont like or beleives hurts there image or there products marketability.

No offence Wes, I wouldn't be going around saying that either. For whatever reason...good intentions or bad...there was a recent incident which disproves your statement.

[dalanik]

You guys would really spend that much on a piece of dedicated software?

That was just an example, very plastic, to explain the point. Trust me, I have mortgage as well, 2 kids, I live in east Europe where the standard and salaries are waaay below western Europe or USA. Ofcourse I choose XLobby because it was free (one of the reasons).

But I'd rather pay higher price of s/w than lower and be dependant on expiration date, pay yearly subscription, have to upgrade when THEY want me, etc.

D.

[Wayne123]

Wayne123 - I have been using Premise as well. The backend is freakin' brilliant. Unfortunately, the front-end sucks pond water. And since it's unsupported and now VERY old code, it's getting fairly limited in it's usefulness. And I can't code AT ALL.

I wish I had learned to program when I was younger myself, I would like to try to learn how to write my own drivers for Premise, I can't believe Motorola killed off Premise instead of selling it to someone who could of made it better. It was very nice of Motorola to keep the site up and give everything away for free though.

I really like the great graphical user interface of Xlobby and hope they are sucessfull in making a great Home automation program.

[stevenhanna6]

I'll leave this thread open but I've started another...so please post questions about pricing over there so we can organize everything into one thread and get an FAQ going.

http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5595