Archive for December 13th, 2009
Talking with Mike got me planning !
by on Dec.13, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Last night was this mansion on the news which seriously made me salivate – It was crazy home automation and had done a seriously outstanding job of putting the pieces together. Almost every fireplace was thinking on its own and even the litter boxes as well as the gazebo roof were fully integrated.
My wife and I have liked basic home automation for what seems like forever but I had never seen something like this, it was crazy and I want everything I saw now.
I often day dream of having my house do neat stuff like announcing caller ID anywhere in the house or reminding us of obligations as we leave the house. Some of this stuff is still several years in terms of general accessibility (it should be noted that some groups have done it) despite this more realistic things for example lighting and music that can be remotely controlled are well within reach and affordable now. In order to make this happen I need to persuade my other half... then I’m sure she’ll just love the place that got me started on all this: ISY-99 Insteon
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Dreaming about our integration of home cinema with automation technology .
by on Dec.13, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Switching focus starting with lighting control over to home movie rooms is not that much of a transition taking into account most individuals (including me) almost certainly started their journey for lighting control using a remote control to make the entire theatre room replica ideal. I feel the computer programmed controllers are a key device and we now got one for all of our house’s televisions. Taking into consideration that we just don’t do the ‘live’ tv style of watching any more, it felt like there was frequently a bunch of things to turn on which wasted my time using the first remote then the next one until all the devices were on, only to repeat the method after whatever I was watching was over.
While smart remotes are here now, the merger of automation technologies and home theatres is becoming closer each day with most of the prevalent companies prototyping UHF commands from a home system recently and because of this anyone with an interest can now perform actions such as scripting a receiver which is in an adjacent room of the place with only your remote Zwave tool. Neat stuff, and it is explained in more of an easy to understand fashion at this Insteon site Z-Wave home automation than many X10 sites so it’s absolutely a key place which simplifies things amazingly well.
It’s great – the writer is way too enthusiastic regarding automation devices.
