The Insanity Is Amazing

[Martin]

kwatt wrote:Ah, that’s my secret…I don’t rely on a computer (persay) to do the donkey work, they’re too unreliable for that IMO. I use X10 cause it’s cheap, well cheaper than the alternatives at least, and Homevision to control it all. Alarm will soon be handled by Comfort and that leads to allsorts of security tricks I can do. 😉

A server in the house runs for HA for voice feedback……….etc etc…..

And you think I ramble on ❓ …What is he takking aboot.. 🙂

Seriously though, this canny Scot has got everything and more that has ever or will ever work using Ohms Law. He has got more high tech gadgets around his hoos that even Heath Robinson has yet to invent. I bet he even has a device that automatically opens the door of his garden shed (where he keeps it all) as he approaches 😯

Martin

P.S. When IS Haggis Shooting Season anyway 😉

[kwatt]

Google holds all the answers! 😉

No I don’t have all the gadgets, don’t need them and a lot of them are pants or a waste of time anyway. But automatic gates on the drive woul dbe nice 😀 over £1000 to do it though! 🙁

X10 is a powerline control system for mains operated devices, like lamps, in its simplest form.

There is a connection to this industry though as we are starting to see internet enabled appiliances as well as robotics being employed in the industry which has a very strong crossover into other home control and automation technology that’s already out there. It would appear that the manufacturers of whitegoods have cottoned on to the fact that this is a burgeoning and possibly very lucrative market as the technology becomes more available to the normal man in the street.

And, if you think about it we’ve been going down that road for at least 30 years or more, after all, what is a washer or a dishwasher but the automation of a traditionally manual chore?

To illustrate how simply it can start a question often asked is, why can I not press a keyfob and have the house arm and lock or disarm and lock just like my car does? Simple ideas like that we’ve been using for years on cars and accept it as the norm now, homes will eventually go the same way I think it’s only a matter of time.

K.

[Martin]

kwatt wrote: homes will eventually go the same way I think it’s only a matter of time.

Darn right they will I agree, but the only major problem they have at the moment with that is something I am associated with… RF Breakthrough! i.e spurious radio frequency signals on adjacent channels and their multipliers cause havoc to modern remote control devices.

Regarding electronic gates/garage doors, most operate on or around 150 Mhz (analogue FM) with poor EMC (RF Shielding potential) which means that little old me can open the gates to many a mansion or stud farm around here simply by keying the PTT (Microphone button that is) on my high power mobile radio transciever 😆

Currently digital systems are being installed but the major problem there is limited transmitter range (using a keyfob device) and expense. Therefore many prestigious homes and businesses stick to the ‘get out of the car and hit the 4 digit keypad’ mode.

I just thought I would bore you with that one in passing 🙄

Martin

[kwatt]

Martin, if you think the RF frequencies are crowded now, just give a year of two till even the current technologies become mainstream. 🙁

Already commercial broadcasters and users are whining about crowded airwaves.

K.

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