HOME API

In the early days of writing this book we devoted a complete chapter to a working group called Home API, which was defining and developing software infrastructures for in-home appliances. Toward the end of 1999, Home API announced that it had decided to merge its efforts with those of the UPnP forum to ensure a unified specification for development of home-control, software, and products. Consequently we removed our Home API chapter and decided instead to include a new section in the UPnP chapter to briefly describe the group's background and achievements.

The founding members of the Home API Working Group were Compaq, Honeywell, Intel, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Philips.

The final result of the group's work, the Home API Specification ...

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