Archive for April 14th, 2009
I need Creston
by on Apr.14, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Just like many things associated with domotics I can’t resist any of the new stuff being announced through companies like the Z-Wave alliance and the Z-Wave alliance.
Many of these recent products being announced shouldn’t be considered really as big a deal as they claim in that they likely had been done through other means working with other readily available devices but for beginners they’re presented as a clean little package. That and these kits don’t need fluke testers around the house to make it work.
There are many parallels with the brands. One such similarity, almost none of the product lineups use portable items as RF boosters, and it’s hard to find one that doesn’t use RF to strengthen signals. Beyond this however, things become complicated – I could try to outline it here and make mistakes, this site Z-Wave home automation has good discussions talking about some of the contrast points.
Now anyone with any legal ideas regarding how I can pull together some dough to fund our new obsession, kindly pass it along!
My night made it hard to think about anything else .
by on Apr.14, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
There was this mansion on one of the HD channels which almost made my jaw drop – Everywhere they had installed touchscreen controls and did a decent job setting things up. Almost every light knew what to do and stuff like the litter boxes and heated floors were accessible from the controllers everywhere.
I’ve been a fan of lighting control for what seems like forever but seeing something like this, it was amazing and I’m still in shock.
I’ve thought about having our apartment do fancy tasks like running a bath by just asking the house to or voice alerting us to someone at the door. maybe some stuff is a bit out from now (regardless of this some people have done it) still more practical items for instance environment modes which can be changed over the internet are available and inexpensive this year. The last step is to plead my case to my lovely wife... at which point she can hold responsible the page that helped me learn about this stuff: Zwave devices
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2003 Mercury Grand Marquis Lighting Control Module |  |
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US $125.00 | 11d 13h 13m |
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Lighting controls | |
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US $500.00 | 1h 23m |
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2000 GRAND MARQUIS CROWN VIC LIGHTING CONTROL MODULE | |
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US $139.95 | 1d 12h 3m |
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New Ecue Butler XT 160098 Lighting Light Control Unit | |
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US $699.00 | 24d 6h 33m |
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