Home Automation Blog

Moving starting with lighting control over into home cinemas shouldn’t be very big of a change in view of the fact that several users (myself included) probably kicked off their quest for control of lights via a harmony remote to make the full room-turned-theatre setup ideal. Personally the computer programmed remote controls have been a godsend and we own one for virtually all of our house’s plasmas. Taking into consideration that we almost never watch that non-PVR thing any more, there’s almost always a bunch of receivers and the like to turn on and it drove me crazy using one clicker followed by the next in line until it was ready, before we have to repeat the process after the movie was done.

The other thing is, the integration of automation with our ‘relaxing’ technologies is moving closer each day with many of the innovating producers prototyping IR commands from your powerline system now and so anyone with an interest can do stuff like controlling a music player that’s at the far end of the apartment with one’s RF home network controls. It’s exciting, although its explained in more of an easy to understand fashion here ISY-99 when compared to other home automation sites so it’s for sure a good place which is worth checking out.

That guy is dangerously eager regarding technology.

With regards to technologies considered to be home of the future type stuff I’m a big fan of some of the recent items coming out by vendors such as Power Control Systems and the Z-Wave alliance.
Almost all of the recent items coming out are not really as revolutionary as evolutionary in that they was accomplished through other means utilizing other basic component products but for beginners they are presented as a tidy set. Another perk is you won’t need a 6 page schematic to get it working.

Upon closer inspection there are a few likenesses between the various technologies. One such similarity, none of the technologies use portable items as RF repeaters, and they all use radio frequency in some manner. When investigating further however, things become more a bit complex – I could struggle to describe it now and explain things poorly, this site ISY-99 is better at digging into the variations.

That said if you have good ideas on ways for me to earn sufficient cash to sponsor our latest infatuation, comment below and let us know!