Archive for May 21st, 2009
Some days, I don’t like accidents caused by carelessness!
by on May.21, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Some days I take satisfaction in my workplace, but sometimes the trip alone is sufficient to cause me to move far away. Some people are such new motorists with not enough concentration to the roadway. Adding to this, I tipped the drink in my car on the way in to the garage...
Whatever.
Kicking off our integration of media centers and Insteon !
by on May.21, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Migrating from home automation over into home movie rooms is not very big of a evolution bearing in mind many users (myself included) likely began the exploration for lighting using a remote control to make the uber-cool movie room setup ideal. Maybe it’s just me but the Harmony series of remotes have been a godsend and we now have one for each one of the plasmas. Especially since I rarely watch that ‘live’ tv style of watching any more, it seems there’s almost always at least a couple items to switch on and it made me so frustrated using the first remote followed by the next one until all the devices were on, just to go backwards on the process once we were finished.

Speaking of remotes, the combination of items from Zwave with entertainment is getting more realistic by the week with most of the innovating producers offering infrared control from your powerline network recently and because of this you can then perform actions such as networking a music player that’s clear across the condo with one’s RF Zwave tool. Very cool overall, although the whole thing is elaborated on in more detail at this Insteon site Insteon iPhone when contrasted against most Insteon sites so it’s for sure a informative spot which won’t make you feel dumb.
I love that he is seriously excited regarding automation devices.