Archive for December 23rd, 2009
My talk with Bill got me planning …
by on Dec.23, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Last night was this mansion on holmes on homes which seriously caused me to beg my wife – The house had Zigbee and performed a really fantastic job making it all work. Close to every light and fan knew what the rest of the house was doing and get this- the litter boxes plus the heated floors were controlled by the house.
I’ve used basic home automation for ages but I hadn’t even dreamed about a system of this caliber, it was crazy and I want everything I saw now.
I always talk about making the house do cool things along the lines of announcing caller ID anywhere in the house or announcing the weather for the day in the morning. maybe some stuff is a ways from now (although some average people are in the process of it) still more realistic things like atmosphere settings at the touch of a button are well within reach and reasonably priced today. One more thing to do: plead my case to my financial advisor... after which she can hold responsible the site where I found the information: Insteon iPhone
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Mmmmm Insteon
by on Dec.23, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
It’s pretty well known that for technologies related to home automation I watch pretty carefully some of the new stuff available from consortiums like Power Control Systems and SmartLabs.
The thing is these recent products available aren’t really as new as they appear seeing as they could all be created before working with other off-the-shelf products but nowadays they are offered as a tidy kit. As a side benefit now you don’t need a complicated circuit diagram to set things up.
Looking closer we see a few resemblances between the major players. As an example, none of the product lineups use handheld remote products as RF relays, and it seems like all use radio waves as a backup. Looking deeper though, things get involved – I’m not going to venture to portray it now and make a bunch of errors, this site Z-Wave home automation has pages dedicated to highlighting some of the discrepancies.
So anybody having any thoughts for how I can pull together a bit of cash to pay for the new obsession, for pete’s sake let me know!
