Archive for September 5th, 2009
Chatting with Joe triggered something !
by on Sep.05, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
I recently saw a killer house on EHM which probably made me salivate – Everywhere they had installed automatic sprinklers and performed a really fantastic job of having it be impressive. Every kitchen appliance knew what to do and get this- the outside sprinklers as well as the bathroom plasmas were fully integrated.
I’ve been excited by basic home automation for forever but seeing something this advanced, it was inspiring and I’m still in shock.
We talk about letting the superhome that we live in (slight exageration) do fancy tasks like following me with music through the house or voice alerting us to someone at the door. I’ll admit some stuff is a ways in terms of general accessibility (regardless of this certain rich folks have made it work) nevertheless more practical items for instance lighting control which respond to your moods are well within reach and economical today. When I get home I will convince the significant other... after which I’m sure she’ll just love the link where it all started: Zwave lighting
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Dreaming about my inclusion of home cinema and Zwave …
by on Sep.05, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Migrating starting with automation over into home movie rooms isn’t that much of a change considering most individuals (including me) likely started their curiosity for lighting via a integrated control unit to make the super cool in-house theatre experience just right. Maybe it’s just me but the Logitech controllers have turned out to be a miracle and we own one for all of our tv’s. Considering we don’t watch that ‘live’ tv thing at all, it seems there’s almost always at least a couple receivers and the like to switch on which made me so frustrated picking up the first clicker then the subsequent one until everything was ready, just to repeat the procedure once our game was over and done with.

With that in mind, the commingling of automation technologies with our ‘relaxing’ technologies is inching closer every time I check with many of the more innovating companies releasing UHF control from your domotics network recently and because of this you can now do things we couldn’t do before like networking a stereo which could be in an adjacent room of the house utilizing only the RF house controls. Very cool overall, although the details are clarified better at this Insteon site Insteon thermostat when contrasted against most review sites so it’s for sure a good place which simplifies things amazingly well.
That guy is way too enthusiastic when reviewing Insteon.

