Re-trying my incorporation of theatre rooms despite having lighting control …
by on Jul.23, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Moving starting with automation to home entertainment shouldn’t be much of a leap taking into account most people (including me) almost certainly kicked off their exploration for control of lights via a integrated control unit to make the perception of theatre room experience ideal. In my mind the touchscreen controllers are a godsend and we now use one for virtually all of our tv sets. When you consider that we never do the ‘live’ tv thing at all, there’s perpetually way too many devices to flick on and it drove me crazy using the first control and then the next until it was ready, before we have to go backwards on the method once whatever I was watching was over and done with.

That said, the incorporation of automation technologies with home entertainment is moving increasingly common each time I check with quite a few of the more innovating companies making infrared control from a house network as of late and as a result anyone with an interest can do things like scripting a receiver which could be across the house having the RF Zwave device. Neat stuff, although it is explained with more of a tutorial style here: Zwave devices when compared to some Insteon sites so it is definitely a good spot to see.
It’s great – the writer is seriously excited about home automation.