The Webdynhome Concept; What Is The Webdynhome; The Native Web Site; Control - Webdyn home Installation Manual

3 The Webdynhome concept

3.1 What is the Webdynhome?

The world of home automation equipment has up until recently been a closed
proprietary one with a rich mixture of diverse proprietary protocols. The Webdynhome
provides a gateway between several of these existing "languages" and the lingua
franca of the modern world the Web.
It provides the link between the virtual and the real world
Protocol :
The IP (Internet Protocol) protocol is the de facto communication standard. It is truly
universal and enables data sharing between a truly vast array of different equipment
types.
Language :
The language of the Webdynhome is HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), which is
the language used to develop all of the Web pages found on the World Wide Web. It
is very flexible and allows a wide range of styles both graphical and textual.
In selecting open standard protocols and languages the Webdynhome is able
to exploit any type of terminal that supports a Web browser and in turn the
user is able to control the different devices that are connected to the
Webdynhome.

3.2 The native Web site

The native Web site of the Webdynhome is actually generated "on the fly". The
internal system database is used to create a real-time Web based representation of
the different devices connected to the system. This "view" of the system is therefore
always up to date and shows the real configuration of the Webdynhome.
There are in effect two different Web sites that may be visualized, the administration
site (viewed when logged on as either "install" or "admin") and the user site,
accessed when logged on at the "user" level.

3.3 Control

The different devices connected to the Webdynhome will probably use many different
protocols and/or physical interconnects.
IP
There is a small but growing list of devices that may be controlled directly on an IP
network (Web cameras, video projectors ..). The Webdynhome may also be used to
control these devices (typically using HTTP) and in this case may be regarded as an
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