Home Automation Blog

There are times I take satisfaction in working downtown, but there are times when the traffic to work is all that’s needed to drive me to quit. Some people are such poor sheeple and barely any thoughts to the roadway. As if that wasn’t enough, what happens next? I tipped my Starbucks just as I pulled into the lot...

Grrrr.

Switching focus from home automation over into in-house theatres is hardly that big of a evolution taking into account many folks (not counting us) likely began their exploration for control of lights through a remote control to make the perception of movie theatre setup ideal. Personally the AMX controllers have been a godsend and we now bought one for virtually all of our tv watching areas. Especially since I rarely do the live programming thing at all, there is constantly a bunch of things to flick on which took so much time using one control and then the next one until all the devices were on, before we have to go backwards on the process after we were finished.

With that in mind, the incorporation of technologies like Insteon with home theatres is becoming increasingly common by the time I check with most of the more innovating producers offering infrared management from any automation system now and because of this one can do stuff like turning on and off a mp3 system at the far end of the condo with your handheld Zwave tool. Can you tell I’m excited? It’s neat, and it is explained more thoroughly here Insteon vs X10 when compared to some home automation sites so it’s absolutely a essential spot which is worth checking out.
The writer there is dangerously eager when discussing Insteon.