Archive for September 18th, 2009
Argh, I really dislike stop and go traffic during my drive!
by on Sep.18, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Some days I enjoy working downtown, but sometimes the trip coming in is all it takes to convince me to retire early. Too many horrible drivers coupled with a passing interest in attention to the roadway. Adding insult to injury, I tipped my Timmies on the last corner into the parkade... Sigh.
Mmmmm remote control lights
by on Sep.18, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
With regards to items considered to be house automation I pay a lot of attention to all the new devices coming out by places like the Z-Wave alliance and Home Automation Inc.
Almost all of these recent products coming out aren’t actually as revolutionary as evolutionary since this stuff likely had been accomplished other ways utilizing available basic component items but nowadays they’re offered as a prebuilt set. One other thing is now you don’t feel like you need a 6 page schematic to get it working.
Upon closer inspection there are a lot of correlations with the brands. As an example, not one of the technologies use handheld remote products as message relays, and they all use RF in some manner. When investigating further still, things become more complicated – I’d rather not venture to outline it at this point and make a fool of myself, there’s a site here Home automation products is better at analyzing the divergences.
Now if you’re having any legal ideas regarding methods to earn a bit of moolah to fund the recent obsession, for pete’s sake pass it along!
