Home Automation Blog

Changing passions from automation of your home to home theatres is not that big of a stretch taking into account most people (including me) probably started their exploration for perfect ambiance via a harmony remote to make the entire room-turned-theatre setup complete. Maybe it’s just me but the touchscreen remote controls have turned out to be a marvel and we now purchased one for each of the tv watching areas. Since I just don’t do the ‘live’ tv style of watching anymore, it felt like there was perpetually what seemed like many entertainment systems to turn on and it I hated - picking up the first remote then the subsequent one until all the devices were on, only to reverse the method once we were over.

Speaking of remotes, the merger of automation technologies and home entertainment is becoming closer by the week with many well known companies releasing infared transmit and receive from a domotics network recently and so you can then do actions like commanding a tuner on a different floor of the condo using one’s wireless Zwave tool. It’s exciting, although the whole thing is explained with more of a tutorial style at this Insteon site ISY-99 when contrasted against many blogs so it’s a good site to check out.

I love that he is dangerously eager about technology.