Comments on: Home Automation; Livejournal syndication http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7 A Geek's View of Technology Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:40:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sayerbloke http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-14 sayerbloke Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:49:27 +0000 http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7#comment-14 <i>"did the LJ feed work?"</i> Now about to find out. “did the LJ feed work?”

Now about to find out.

]]> By: john http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-12 john Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:37:51 +0000 http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7#comment-12 The ones I'm looking at are from smarthome.com (www.smarthome.com) and are using INSTEON with plug in adapters. It's not dirt cheap, but it's also not prohibitively expensive. It'd be great for an apartment (which is where I'm likely to end up soon), and a great starting point for when I get a house. Jason has some that he demoed to me, and it was using a web interface. I may try that, too, but wanted to see if anyone had any feedback on other solutions first. Thanks for the thoughts :-) did the LJ feed work? The ones I’m looking at are from smarthome.com (www.smarthome.com) and are using INSTEON with plug in adapters. It’s not dirt cheap, but it’s also not prohibitively expensive. It’d be great for an apartment (which is where I’m likely to end up soon), and a great starting point for when I get a house.

Jason has some that he demoed to me, and it was using a web interface. I may try that, too, but wanted to see if anyone had any feedback on other solutions first.

Thanks for the thoughts :-)

did the LJ feed work?

]]> By: sayerbloke http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-11 sayerbloke Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:48:06 +0000 http://www.youwillgetavirus.com/archives/7#comment-11 The only one I've had personal experience of was a system used through the course of my work. I've controlled lighting and so on from a remote computer terminal, but it was using BMS outstations, which certainly wouldn't be the best [or cheapest!] way of doing it. Oh, and the software wouldn't run on a Mac. Well, it could be accessed over a web browser but that would require either a server running a Windows app or the addition of more expensive hardware. The only one I’ve had personal experience of was a system used through the course of my work. I’ve controlled lighting and so on from a remote computer terminal, but it was using BMS outstations, which certainly wouldn’t be the best [or cheapest!] way of doing it. Oh, and the software wouldn’t run on a Mac. Well, it could be accessed over a web browser but that would require either a server running a Windows app or the addition of more expensive hardware.

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