Everyone asks about home automation
by on Oct.28, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
It’s pretty well known that for items related to house automation I can’t resist most of the new devices coming out from companies such as SmartLabs and Power Control Systems.
Many of these latest devices coming out shouldn’t be considered actually as big a deal as they claim seeing as this stuff had been created other ways using other standard parts but now they’re available as a tidy kit. One other thing is you won’t feel like you need a complicated circuit diagram to set things up.

Looking closer we see several resemblances between the brands. As an example, almost none of the product lineups use handheld remote products as signal repeaters, and all the items use radio frequency in some capacity. With other differences still, it gets involved – I’m not going to struggle to express it here and mess it up, there’s a site here Insteon thermostat has pages dedicated to evaluating some of the discrepancies.
That said if anyone has any visions for tricks to make a bit of moolah to make up for our new addiction, don’t hesitate to let us know!