Home Automation Blog

There are times I enjoy my day job, but sometimes the traffic to work is all it takes to drive me to go back to bed. Some people are such horrible sheeple coupled with a passing interest in attention to the pavement. To top it off, I spilled the drink in my car on the last corner into the parking spot...

Sigh.

Branching out starting with lighting control to home cinemas is hardly that much of a stretch taking into account several folks (including me) almost certainly began their quest for control of lights through a harmony remote to make the super cool movie theatre replica complete. We found that the Harmony remote controls have turned out to be a key device and we got one for each one of our house’s tv sets. Considering I never do the live programming thing any more, there’s frequently so many receivers and the like to switch on and it wasted my time picking up the first changer and then the next in line until things were setup, only to repeat the method after we were completed.

With that in mind, the integration of home automation and our ‘relaxing’ technologies is moving more realistic each day with some respected manufacturers offering infrared management from a powerline network as of late and as a result anyone with an interest can do stuff like switching the station of a receiver in an adjacent room of the house with only your handheld Zwave tool. Many possibilities, though everything is described more thoroughly at this Insteon site Insteon thermostat than other Zwave blogs so it is definitely a key location to check out.

It’s useful because he is borderline psychotic when discussing home automation.