Archive for November 22nd, 2009
Grrrr, I really dislike traffic jams on my route!
by on Nov.22, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
There are times I am apathetic about my day job, but every so often the traffic to work is all that’s needed to convince me to go back to bed. Just so many drowsy drivers and barely any attention to driving. Adding to this, I tipped my Starbucks coming in to the lot...
Another day another dollar.
Must…buy… Zwave
by on Nov.22, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Just like many devices associated with home of the future type stuff I really like any of the recent products for sale through consortiums such as the Z-Wave alliance and the Zigbee Alliance.
Some of the latest items for sale shouldn’t be considered so much big a deal as they claim since these things had been built other ways working with currently accessible standard parts but nowadays they’re available as a prebuilt set. One other thing is these kits don’t require a complicated circuit diagram to make it work.
A deeper look shows us a few likenesses amongst the vendor offerings. For example, not one of the product lineups use battery-operated products as RF relays, and they all use radio waves in some way. Digging deeper however, it gets more involved – Rather than endeavor to outline it at this point and mess it up, this place Insteon thermostat does a good job of talking about some of the differentiators.
Now if you’re having any legal ideas on how I can pull together a bit of money to make up for our latest compulsion, comment below and let me know!
