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There are days I take satisfaction in my workplace, but there are times when the drive alone is all that’s needed to drive me to resign. Too many brutal sheeple with not enough attention to the road. Adding insult to injury, what happens next? I tipped my coffee driving in to the parking lot...

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Just like many items related to domotics I’m a big fan of any recent stuff created through consortiums like the Zigbee Alliance and the Z-Wave alliance.
Nearly all of these recent items created aren’t so much much of a step forward as you’d think due to the fact that these things was done other ways working with available basic component devices but instead now they are offered as a prebuilt package. One other thing is now you don’t feel like you need a complicated circuit diagram to make it work.

Upon closer inspection there are many correlations with the major players. One such similarity, few of the offerings use battery-operated items as signal repeaters, and they all use radio waves in some manner. Beyond this however, things become complicated – Rather than venture to outline it here and mess it up, this site Zwave devices has good discussions evaluating some of the differentiators.

So if anyone has good ideas for methods to make a bit of funds to sponsor our latest dependence, please let me know!