Archive for December 6th, 2009
Some days, I hate traffic caused by carelessness!
by on Dec.06, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Many times I don’t hate work, but sometimes the drive coming in is sufficient to force me to resign. There are lousy motorists with not enough concentration to the roadway. As if that wasn’t enough, what happens next? I spilled my coffee coming in to the garage...
Sigh.
Nothing beats automatic everything
by on Dec.06, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
With regards to devices considered to be home automation I pay a lot of attention to most of the new devices coming out through places like the Z-Wave alliance and Home Automation Inc.
Many of the latest products coming out aren’t so much new as they appear in that this stuff was accomplished previously utilizing existing readily available products but now they’re offered as a prebuilt set. That and you won’t require fluke testers around the house to figure it out.
There are quite a few similarities between the various technologies. For instance, few of the product lineups use battery-operated products as message relays, and it’s hard to find one that doesn’t use radio waves in some manner. Beyond this though, things become more complicated – I’m not going to attempt to describe it now and mess it up, this site Insteon home automation has pages dedicated to highlighting some of the differentiators.
So anyone with good ideas relating to tricks to earn some funds to make up for our latest habit, don’t hesitate to share!
