Archive for April 25th, 2009
My talk with Bill triggered something …..
by on Apr.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
I recently saw this mansion on the discovery channel that totally made my jaw drop – They installed motorized plasmas in the kitchen and performed a really fantastic job of having it be impressive. It seemed like every sprinkler knew what the rest of the house was doing and even silly things like the inside doors as well as the heated floors were controlled by the house.
I’ve been excited by Zwave for forever but we’d not attempted something this advanced, it was sensational and I want everything I saw now.
We talk about making the current place more automated so it can such as following me with music through the house or announcing the weather for the day in the morning. Ok a bit out in terms of general accessibility (it should be noted that some people in the forums could do it) nevertheless more practical items for example music at the touch of a button should be locally available and economical now. I think I need to win over my financial advisor... at which point she can focus her energy on the site that got me interested: Insteon vs X10
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Mi Casa Verde VeraLite Z Wave Controller |  |
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US $179.99 | 14h 51m |
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Mi Casa Verde Vera 3 Z Wave Controller | |
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US $299.99 | 15h 12m |
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2gig CNTRL2 Z WAVE Wireless Control Panel | |
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US $132.99 | 16h 3m |
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GE 45609 Z Wave Wireless Lighting Control On Off Switch | |
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US $39.99 | 9d 12h 50m |
2009 is the year of Creston
by on Apr.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
With regards to items related to house automation I pay a lot of attention to most of the new items created by places like Home Automation Inc and the Z-Wave alliance.
The thing is the latest items created are not so much revolutionary as evolutionary due to the fact that they had been created previously utilizing other basic component stuff but instead now they’re available as a tidy set. As a side benefit these kits don’t require an electrical engineering degree to understand how it works.
Upon closer inspection there are several parallels with the vendor offerings. For instance, few of the product lineups use battery-operated products as message repeaters, and it seems like all use RF one way or another. Digging deeper though, it becomes involved – I’d rather not venture to explain it at this point and make a bunch of errors, a site like this X10 home automation has good discussions evaluating the differences.
That said anyone with any legal ideas on ways for me to earn some cash to pay for my latest habit, please pass it along!
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