Kicking off my merger of media centers despite having Insteon …..
by on Jun.12, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Migrating starting with automation over into in-house theatres is hardly very big of a leap taking into account the majority of users (not counting us) probably kicked off their curiosity for perfect ambiance through a integrated control unit to make the uber-cool movie room experience ideal. In my mind the computer programmed clickers have turned out to be a critical item and we use one for each of our plasmas. Since I rarely watch that live programming style of watching at all, it seems there’s constantly a ton of things to turn on which wasted my time using one remote and then the next until all the devices were on, just to repeat the method after our game was finished.
The other thing is, the commingling of automation with home entertainment is moving more real each week with many of the more popular home automation places prototyping IR management from a home system now and because of this you can now perform events such as networking a radio which could be across the place having only the handheld home network controls. Neat stuff, though it is described in more of an easy to understand fashion here: ISY-99 when compared to many Zwave blogs so it’s for sure a good destination which simplifies things amazingly well.
It’s useful because he is way too enthusiastic regarding Insteon.
