Suntouch is their entry level control system.
Less circuits and feature capabilities.ģ.
It is basically a scaled down version of IntelliTouch. EasyTouch is their mid-end control system. IntelliTouch is their high-end control system. They accomplish this by offering 3 tiers of control systems:ġ. They build pumps, filters, heaters, lights, cleaners, white goods, and control systems to make working the above much simpler for the pool owner. They are in the pool and spa equipment business. We have automated their home (lights, HVAC, etc) but are not able to easily integrate the pool for the ONE THING they really want - to start up the spa remotely before making the 2 hour drive to the vacation home.Īll, I think you are confusing the business that Pentair is in. They don't really have anyplace (or any desire) to install any software. My very tech-savvy, but level headed customers don't carry iPhones or laptops, they just get on the Internet wherever they are and use applications (e-mail, documents, spreadsheets, etc) that live in the Internet cloud. With respect to the iPhone and PC Apps, this implies that you have one or the other. It does not make sense for any of us to do ad hoc protocol decoding or hack the Intellitouch when the obvious solution is a web service which leverages the existing pieces and which can provide appropriate security. The motivation behind my original post was to see if anyone has information on how to contact product management at Pentair regarding future product direction. While Pentair may be ahead of other pool vendors they are seriously behind the home automation industry. Landa_mac - I really think jharrel has called this one correctly. Most any consumer wireless router can do the job but Pentair did the work already so the homeowner doesn't have to know how to configure it to work with all the other routers out there.
The router is just that, a router with NAT and port forwarding. But since I am just a pool tech with a networking background who understands what you're asking for. If what you asked for was a new high end product, this capability would be a the top of my requirements as a product development manager. I doubt the existing architecture can have apache or other web sever ported to it and it's not likely to have enough memory to store and run the programs behind the web server needed. It would also be likely that a fundamental architecture change in the board, processor and code would be required and that makes this ill advised for this product. There are a lot of security issues that would need to be addressed that aren't needed by using the their application. The web server required would not reside in the router but in the control panel's main board.
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