Home Automation Starter

After my incident last week, I immediately went up to Automated Outlet and ended up buying two of their Panasonic IP cameras (a huge thanks ...

I'm tired of talking about it... I'm tired of writing about it... All I will say is that it happened last Wednesday, April 11 and po...

Well, I was at work yesterday when my phone got an email from HomeSeer saying there was unauthorized motion in the kitchen (i.e., nobody hom...

So, ever since I installed the switch in the bathroom, it has been having problems. It made noises and couldn't keep the lights on, oft...

Yay, got a few hours this afternoon with the kid asleep and the wife busy enough elsewhere that I could install some of the switches I bough...

Nothing in depth to report... just a status update. Had a few minutes over the weekend in between building bookshelves, hanging large batik ...

Last night (Valentine's Day!), the wife and kid went to bed early, and gave me some time to set up more stuff (you know, aside from the ...

Well, I guess I now have a rudimentary state machine. My original plan was to take an X10RF Slimline switch (one of the wireless switches I...