Home Automation Blog

Migrating from automation of your home to home cinemas is hardly that much of a jump taking into account many individuals (not counting us) likely kicked off their quest for control of lights through a remote control to make the entire in-house theatre replica ideal. We found that the Logitech controllers are a critical item and we now have one for each one of the televisions. Especially since we don’t watch that live programming thing anymore, there is almost always at least a couple items to turn on which took so much time grabbing the first changer then the next one until all the devices were on, just to reverse the process after whatever I was watching was finished.

That said, the integration of automation technologies with home theatres is inching closer by the time I check with some of the more well known producers releasing infared integration from a house network now and so anyone with an interest can now perform actions such as switching the station of a stereo at the far end of the home with only one’s wireless Zwave tool. Very cool overall, though the details are described with more of a tutorial style here: X10 home automation than many X10 sites so it’s a informative site to check out.
It’s useful because he is borderline psychotic when reviewing this stuff.