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Archive for June 25th, 2009

I’m dreaming of remote control lights

by on Jun.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

Just like many items associated with home of the future type stuff I watch pretty carefully any recent products coming out by vendors such as Inc and Power Control Systems.
Many of the recent products coming out aren’t actually as revolutionary as evolutionary due to the fact that these things could all be done other ways using existing basic component parts but instead now they’re accessible as a tidy set. That and these kits don’t feel like you need a complicated circuit diagram to figure it out.

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Looking closer we see several resemblances with the brands. One such similarity, not one of the product lineups use handheld remote items as message boosters, and it seems like all use radio frequency in some way. When investigating further though, it gets interesting – Rather than struggle to express it at this point and make a fool of myself, a site like this Home automation products does a good job of analyzing the contrast points.

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Beginning the crossover points of entertainment centers with automation .

by on Jun.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

Changing passions from automation of your home to home theatres is not that big of a stretch taking into account most people (including me) probably started their exploration for perfect ambiance via a harmony remote to make the entire room-turned-theatre setup complete. Maybe it’s just me but the touchscreen remote controls have turned out to be a marvel and we now purchased one for each of the tv watching areas. Since I just don’t do the ‘live’ tv style of watching anymore, it felt like there was perpetually what seemed like many entertainment systems to turn on and it I hated - picking up the first remote then the subsequent one until all the devices were on, only to reverse the method once we were over.

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Speaking of remotes, the merger of automation technologies and home entertainment is becoming closer by the week with many well known companies releasing infared transmit and receive from a domotics network recently and so you can then do actions like commanding a tuner on a different floor of the condo using one’s wireless Zwave tool. It’s exciting, although the whole thing is explained with more of a tutorial style at this site ISY-99 when contrasted against many blogs so it’s a good site to check out.

I love that he is dangerously eager about technology.

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