Archive for December 30th, 2009
Considering our fusion of home cinema with Zwave …..
by on Dec.30, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Branching out starting with home automation into home theatres shouldn’t be much of a stretch bearing in mind many people (not counting us) almost certainly kicked off the journey for perfect ambiance through a remote to make the super cool in-house theatre setup ideal. I feel the iPod touch clickers have been a godsend and we bought one for each of our house’s tv sets. Especially since we never do the ‘live’ tv style of watching at all, there’s almost always what seemed like many devices to flick on which wasted my time grabbing one remote then the next until everything was ready, before we have to go backwards on the procedure once we were over and done with.

Speaking of remotes, the mixture of automation technologies with our ‘relaxing’ technologies is inching increasingly common by the week with quite a few of the more popular manufacturers offering UHF control from any automation system recently and so anyone with an interest can then perform things like switching the station of a stereo which could be across the house using the remote home network device. It’s exciting, though everything is described more thoroughly here: X10 home automation when compared to most technology sites so it’s for sure a informative destination to learn from.
You can tell he is seriously excited when reviewing technology.
Some days, I can’t stand crashes on my drive in!
by on Dec.30, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Some days I take satisfaction in working downtown, but some days the drive by itself is reason enough to force me not to show up. Just so many new motorists with barely any attention to the pavement. Adding insult to injury, I then hit my Starbucks on the last corner into the garage...
So this is life.