Archive for December 1st, 2009
Thoughts of remote lighting
by on Dec.01, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
With regards to items considered to be home automation my wallet is at the mercy of most of the new items created by places such as Home Automation Inc and Home Automation Inc.
The thing is the latest products created shouldn’t be considered actually as revolutionary as evolutionary because this stuff was done previously using available readily available products but instead now they are presented as a nice package. That and these kits don’t require an electrical engineering degree to figure it out.

Looking closer we see numerous correlations amongst the vendor offerings. For instance, none of the technologies use cordless items as message repeaters, and all the items use RF in some capacity. Digging deeper still, it becomes more a bit complex – I’m not going to venture to describe it at this point and explain things poorly, there’s a site here Insteon iPhone has pages dedicated to analyzing some of the differentiators.
So anybody having any visions relating to ways for me to earn some moolah to fund my latest addiction, kindly help me out!
How frustrating, I don’t like stop and go traffic caused by carelessness!
by on Dec.01, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Many times I don’t mind work, but once in a while the trip alone is sufficient to make me want not to show up. There are drowsy people driving with hardly any attention to the road. Adding insult to injury, I tipped my carefully balanced coffee coming into the parkade... There's always tomorrow.