All Articles Tagged Charmed Quark

Julie Jacobson | 09/01 08:51 AM, 0 Comments

HomeSeer, a rich home controller that often flies under the radar, is busy responding to two significant industry happenings: the rise of Android and the fall of Charmed Quark. Charmed Quark, another sleeper in the home control business, announced in July that it would close shop and let the open-source community take over. Forget that owner Dean Roddey changed his mind a few weeks later. Several home-control vendors pounced on the opportunity. HomeSeer was one of them. Sales and marketing director Mark Colegrove responded quickly to the would-be demise of… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/26 06:18 AM, 7 Comments

Just as it was about to close shop and relinquish its software to the open-source community, Charmed Quark has changed its mind. The maker of CQC home-automation software is not going to open-source its product after all. Instead, says owner Dean Roddey, “Our first goal is still to try to find someone with significant resources to really help us move the product forward more quickly.” Roddey and his partner Mark Stega will “create a substantial pool of equity from our holdings, and offer this to three to five people to… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 07/07 09:10 AM, 17 Comments

Updated July 29, 2010: Charmed Quark has decided not to open-source its home automation software. Click here to read story There have been plenty of efforts over the years to bring home automation to the open-source community. However, none of those efforts has started with a fully baked home-control system, a rabid fan club and sizable installation base. Now, we have the first real shot of open-source success with the unfortunate demise of Charmed Quark Systems, Ltd., developer of CQC automation software. Charmed Quark founder, developer and indefatigable evangelist Dean… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 11/10 10:25 AM, 7 Comments

Colorado vNet's closure, and subsequent acquisition by Russound, has led CE pros to wonder if they should do business with home-control startups. The debate rages with 65 comments and counting across several of our vNet stories. They are concerned — and they should be — that: Their inventory is worthlessWork in progress is a complete write-offExisting installations must be built from scratch as soon as a single controller failsSome industry folks suggest never doing business with newcomers; others say never do business with VC-funded companies. So, assuming vNet does not… View this story