Nothing beats home automation
by on Nov.05, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
I should let people know that for items considered to be home automation my wallet is at the mercy of most of the recent releases being announced by places such as SmartLabs and Home Automation Inc.
What’s interesting is that these recent products being announced are not really as big a deal as they claim in that this stuff could be accomplished before working with existing off-the-shelf parts but instead now they are available as a nice kit. One other thing is these kits don’t require fluke testers around the house to get it working.
Certainly there exist several parallels amongst the product lineups. One such similarity, few of the product lineups use battery-operated devices as RF boosters, and nearly all devices use wireless communication someway. Digging deeper though, it becomes more complicated – I’m not going to struggle to describe it at this point and mess it up, there’s a site here Insteon Controller does a good job of analyzing any differences.
That said if you’re having any visions on ways to make some moolah to fund my new compulsion, please let me know!
