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What are the similarities/differences between HAVi and Home API (HAPI), and what is the relationship between them?

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What are the similarities/differences between HAVi and Home API (HAPI), and what is the relationship between them?

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Similarities between HAVi and HAPI: • Both HAVi and HAPI aim to create a network of devices which users can easily connect and operate. Differences between HAVi and HAPI: • While HAPI addresses the full spectrum of home devices (TV, VCR, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.), HAVi addresses 1394 AV devices. • While HAPI targets Windows application clients which are usually PC-based, HAVi targets platform-neutral application clients (peer-to-peer). • Regarding the relationship between HAVi and HAPI, HAVi-HAPI is being considered by various companies, but nothing has been publicly announced yet.