Archive for May 13th, 2009
Chatting with Joe made it so I couldn’t sleep .
by on May.13, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Last night was a house on the discovery channel which probably made me want to copy it – They installed Insteon and performed a thorough job setting things up. Each door could be controlled and since this was an extreme case the garage doors plus the gazebo roof were controlled.
I have loved basic home automation for what seems like forever but I’d never seen something like this, it was sensational and truly remarkable.
Sometimes I dream of making our house do cool things like following me with music through the house or voice alerting us to someone at the door. Ok still several years in the future (although some houses could do it) still more realistic things such as lighting which can be changed over the internet should be locally available and easy(er) on the pocket now. When I get home I will persuade my financial advisor... then she can hold responsible the site that got me interested: Insteon home automation
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Kicking off my marriage of entertainment centers with remote control lighting …..
by on May.13, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Switching focus from domotics over into home movie rooms isn’t that much of a transition taking into account countless folks (including me) almost certainly began their curiosity for control of lights using a harmony remote to make the super cool in-house theatre setup ideal. Personally the Harmony series of remote controls are a godsend and we now use one for each of our tv watching areas. When you consider that we never watch that ‘live’ tv style of watching at all, there is frequently a ton of devices to turn on which drove me crazy grabbing one changer then the next one until things were setup, just to reverse the process once whatever I was watching was over.
With that in mind, the merger of home automation and home entertainment is inching nearer each day with almost all of the more prevalent manufacturers offering IR commands from a automation system now and so one can then do things like networking a receiver that is in an adjacent room of the house using just one’s wireless Insteon controls. Very cool overall, though the details are elaborated on with more of a tutorial style here: X10 switches than other sites so it’s a good destination which is worth checking out.
It’s apparent that he is entirely too eager when discussing home automation.
