Home Automation Blog

As with all technologies considered to be home of the future type stuff I watch pretty carefully some of the new items created from consortiums like Home Automation Inc and SmartLabs.

Many of these latest devices created shouldn’t be considered actually as big a deal as they claim in that this stuff has been accomplished previously working with existing basic products but for those starting out they are available as a nice kit. That and now you don’t need a complicated circuit diagram to understand how it works.

A deeper look shows us several likenesses with the brands. For example, almost none of the offerings use portable products as message boosters, and nearly all devices use advanced RF in some way. When investigating further though, things get more complicated – I’m not going to try to outline it now and explain things poorly, a site like this Home automation iPhone has pages dedicated to digging into the differentiators.

Now anybody having any visions relating to ways to make enough cash to make up for our new compulsion, don’t hesitate to let me know!

Switching focus starting with lighting control into home movie rooms isn’t very big of a evolution in view of the fact that several people likely kicked off the curiosity for mood lighting via a remote to make the full room-turned-theatre setup just right. We found that the Logitech Harmony remote controls have been a marvel and we now have one for each one of our tv’s. Considering we rarely watch that ‘live’ tv style of watching at all, it seems there’s perpetually a ton of things to flick on which I hated - picking up the first changer then the next until everything was ready, only to reverse the process after the show was finished.

While smart remotes are here now, the combination of lighting control with entertainment is moving closer by the week with quite a few of the popular producers offering infrared commands from any automation network now and because of this you can then do events we couldn’t do before like commanding a music player which could be clear across the apartment having one’s remote home network device. I love this stuff, and it is illustrated more completely here X10 switches than some blogs so it’s absolutely a good place which won’t make you feel dumb.

I love that he is almost scarily passionate regarding Insteon.