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Archive for April 18th, 2009

Mmmmm home automation

by on Apr.18, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

With regards to items associated with domotics my wallet is at the mercy of most of the recent devices being released from places like Power Control Systems and the Z-Wave alliance.

Almost all of the recent products being released aren’t in reality as new as they appear seeing as this stuff was created previously using currently accessible basic devices but for beginners they are accessible as a tidy set. That and you won’t feel like you need a complicated circuit diagram to figure it out.

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Looking closer we see a lot of resemblances between the technologies involved. For instance, none of them use portable items as RF relays, and almost all products use wireless communication in some manner. When investigating further though, things get involved – I could endeavor to describe it at this point and explain things poorly, there’s a site here ISY-99 is better at highlighting some of the contrast points.

That said anybody having good ideas regarding ways to pull together enough moolah to make up for our latest habit, comment below and pass it along!

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Argh, I despise pileups on the way in!

by on Apr.18, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

Some times I don’t mind my workplace, but every so often the trip coming in is reason enough to drive me to retire early. A million sleepy people driving with barely any concentration to the thing in front of them. To top it off, what happens next? I knocked over my tea on the last corner in to the parking garage...
Worst day ever.

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