Running Homeseer on a Mac

Now that you have bought into the great Apple marketing machine and you have oohed and awwed over it for a couple of days, you maybe wondering how can you port over your favorite Window applications. Automated Home came across the same problem when it came to their HA setup. Homeseer does not have a Mac version, so they setout to find away to get HA functionality out of a Mac Mini.

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The current Release Candidate of Parallels has some nice features like 'coherence' mode where MS apps and OS X apps co-exist together, without the MS apps restrained to the MS desktop. This is the magic sauce that is simply amazing to see and experience. I've not got a new application out of this, its just bringing the best apps I use together, into one workspace and the all interplay. Part of the magic sauce is in the simple things like mouse transition from an OS X to MS app, again seamless with only a slight flicker as the mouse pointer changes from the mac to windows shape. Networking is seamless whether the mac is connected through ethernet or WiFi. Part of the install is a Parallels toolkit within Windows that allows you to enable various hardware eg. USB devices, DVD drive etc It also does little things like sync the PC clock to the macs. Its biggest component though is to install Windows drivers for mouse control, to have elegant screen resolutions when resizing Windows, networking drivers to talk to macs Ethernet and WiFi ports, Shared directory setup etc