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Archive for July 14th, 2009

Chatting with Joe triggered something …

by on Jul.14, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

We watched a killer house on the discovery channel which seriously made me salivate – They installed speech recognition and did a thorough job of the implementation. Every kitchen appliance had a remote control and even the dishwasher as well as the bathroom plasmas were controlled by the house.

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We’ve used devices for controlling lights for what seems like forever but I had never seen something like this, it was wicked and I’m still in shock.

Sometimes I dream of letting where we’re living more automated so it can along the lines of adjusting the temperature for each room or displaying the news in the bathroom mirror. Many things are most realistically a couple years in the future (although some people in the forums have done it) on the other hand some more pragmatic goals for example lighting at the touch of a button have come down in price and inexpensive today. In order to make this happen I need to sway the significant other... following which I’m sure she’ll just love the site that got me started on all this: Insteon vs X10

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Planning the consolidation of entertainment centers combined with remote control lighting

by on Jul.14, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave

Making the jump from to in-house theatres shouldn’t be that big of a leap taking into account the majority of individuals (including me) likely began the curiosity for perfect ambiance via a integrated control unit to make the perception of movie room setup perfect. I feel the Logitech controllers are a marvel and we now bought one for each one of our house’s LCDs. Especially since we rarely watch that live programming thing anymore, it seems there’s almost always a ton of devices to turn on and it drove me crazy picking up one remote control and then the next one until everything was ready, just to reverse the method after whatever I was watching was finished.

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While smart remotes are here now, the combination of lighting control with our ‘relaxing’ technologies is inching more realistic every time I check with most of the more prevalent places offering UHF management from your domotics network as of late and because of this anyone with an interest can now do actions like networking a music player that is on a different floor of the home utilizing just one’s handheld Zwave tool. Many possibilities, although the details are described more thoroughly here Zwave vs Insteon when compared to many blogs so it’s for sure a essential place which won’t make you feel dumb.
It’s useful because he is almost scarily passionate regarding this stuff.

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