Home Automation Blog

With regards to devices related to automation I’m a big fan of some of the new stuff coming out from consortiums like Power Control Systems and the Zigbee Alliance.
The thing is the latest items coming out aren’t in reality as as much of a movement as one would imagine because they had been done through other means working with existing off-the-shelf items but now they are available as a clean little kit. That and now you don’t feel like you need fluke testers around the house to make it work.

Looking closer we see a few similarities amongst the product lineups. As an example, few of the technologies use portable products as RF boosters, and it’s hard to find one that doesn’t use radio waves to strengthen signals. Looking deeper however, it gets more a bit complex – I’d rather not venture to express it at this point and make a fool of myself, this place Insteon vs X10 does a good job of digging into the discrepancies.

Now if you’re having thoughts on ways to pull together a bit of moolah to sponsor my recent habit, for pete’s sake help me out!

Last night was this one house on that house makeover show which almost caused me to drool – It was crazy motorized plasmas in the kitchen and did a pretty decent job making it all work. Close to every fireplace could be controlled and I think even the litter boxes as well as the heated floors were fully integrated.

I’ve used devices for controlling lights for years but we’d not attempted automation of this level, it was wicked and truly remarkable.

I’ve thought about making the superhome that we live in (slight exageration) do cool things like turning on the shower in the morning or displaying the news in the bathroom mirror. Although these situations are most realistically a couple years in the future (despite the fact that some houses have done it) nonetheless items like lighting control which respond to your moods are ubiquitous and reasonably priced today. I think I need to convince the wife... at which point she can focus her energy on the place that got me started on all this: Zwave devices

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