Archive for August 17th, 2009
Argh, I despise traffic jams on my route!
by on Aug.17, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
There are weeks I am apathetic about my job, but sometimes the drive to work is reason enough to make me want to move far away. There are sleepy people driving coupled with a passing interest in concentration to driving. To top it off, I hit my carefully balanced coffee making my way into the stall...
Grrrr.
Making the combination of home entertainment and remote control lighting …..
by on Aug.17, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Changing passions starting with automation of your home over into home cinemas isn’t much of a conversion in view of the fact that lots of people (including me) likely started their exploration for control of lights via a integrated control unit to make the uber-cool room-turned-theatre setup just right. Personally the Harmony controllers are a favorite item and we bought one for each one of our televisions. Since I just don’t watch that live programming style of watching any more, there is almost always a bunch of receivers and the like to turn on and it made me so frustrated using the first clicker then the next one until everything was ready, just to repeat the method after we were finished.

The other thing is, the combination of technologies like Insteon with our ‘relaxing’ technologies is getting more real each day with some of the prevalent manufacturers making IR management from a house system now and as a result anyone with an interest can perform actions we couldn’t do before like scripting a mp3 system that is on a different floor of the house having one’s RF Insteon controls. There’s a ton to learn, though the finer points are elaborated on better here Insteon products when compared to some Zwave sites so it’s a key location to see.
It’s great – the writer is dangerously eager regarding home automation.