Archive for November 26th, 2009
I’m dreaming of Creston
by on Nov.26, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
When it comes to items considered to be domotics I watch pretty carefully new stuff available by places such as the Zigbee Alliance and the Z-Wave alliance.
The thing is the latest devices available aren’t really as revolutionary as evolutionary since they likely had been accomplished before working with other readily available devices but now they are available as a clean little package. Another perk is you won’t require fluke testers around the house to set things up.
Certainly there exist many similarities among the various technologies. For instance, none of them use handheld remote devices as message relays, and almost all products use radio waves in some manner. Looking deeper however, things become more complicated – I’d rather not try to explain it myself and make mistakes, this site Insteon vs X10 does a good job of analyzing some of the differences.
Now if anyone has good ideas for ways for me to make a bit of dough to cover my recent dependence, kindly share!
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A commercial made me think …..
by on Nov.26, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
There was this one house on that show after Lost that seriously made my jaw drop – They were using home automation and performed a so-so job making it all work. Each window curtain was centrally controlled and get this- the fridge (including ice maker) and heated floors were accessible from the many panels in the house.
I had been curious about Zigbee for a while now but I hadn’t even dreamed about something this advanced, it was inspiring and truly remarkable.
Sometimes I dream of letting where we’re living do fancy tasks along the lines of running a bath by just asking the house to or announcing the weather for the day in the morning. Some of these things are most realistically a couple years in terms of general accessibility (despite the fact that some houses are in the process of it) however some more pragmatic goals for example music for parties or relaxing are ubiquitous and easy(er) on the pocket today. The last step is to convince the wife...... following which she can focus her energy on the link that got me interested: Insteon vs X10
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XBee USB Development board Zigbee Sensor Remote USART converter | |
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