Gerard Kelly and his family were going through just such a process. Only his situation started to get a little sticky. It seems that the girls didn’t want to leave the cats home alone. Regardless of who the Kellys got to take care of them, Gerard’s girls could not conceive of leaving their beloved pets in the hands of someone who couldn’t love them like the girls could. As Gerard said, "Our vacation to Colorado was almost cancelled because my family did not want to leave the cats home alone." But he adds, "ActiveHome came to the rescue, and our vacation was saved."

Gerard convinced the girls that they could see the cats on the Internet from Colorado. "I used the ActiveHome interface, a Motion Sensor, and a little Visual Basic program, and we had my cats on the web." It’s a new era for the Kellys as CatCam is born.

"I used the motion detector to trigger an event that ran a Visual Basic program that took a video snap and uploaded it to my net account." That’s Programeese for "I used the motion detector and Visual Basic to take web shots and upload it to my ISP (Internet Service Provider)." It’s not as complicated as it sounds. As a matter of fact, it’s very simple. And it had the desired effect. The vacation was saved, the kids could look in on the cats anytime they wanted, and the Kellys were able to go to Colorado.

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