Archive for July 25th, 2009
How frustrating, I hate accidents on my drive in!
by on Jul.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
The majority of days I like work, but there are times when the drive by itself is reason enough to convince me to move far away. A million lousy drivers with hardly any thoughts to the thing in front of them. To top it off, I spilled the stupid coffee driving in to the stall...
There's always tomorrow.
So many questions about automatic everything
by on Jul.25, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
When dealing with items related to automation I really like the new devices produced through vendors like the Z-Wave alliance and SmartLabs.
Nearly all of the recent items produced aren’t so much much of a step forward as you’d think seeing as this stuff was accomplished other ways working with available off-the-shelf stuff but for beginners they’re offered as a nice package. One other thing is these kits don’t need an electrical engineering degree to figure it out.
Looking closer we see a lot of likenesses with the product lineups. One such similarity, not one of them use battery-operated items as RF boosters, and nearly all devices use advanced RF in some capacity. Digging deeper still, things become involved – I’m not going to endeavor to describe it here and make mistakes, there’s a site here Home automation iPhone is better at analyzing some of the differentiators.
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