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PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
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Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages.   |
Popular Mechanics
August 2006
Joe Provey |
Lawn Irrigation Gets Smarter With water costs rising across the country, new controls are valuable in reducing wasted water, making plants healthier and saving money. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
Home Toys
October 2005 |
Relay 8, X-10 Driven Eight Circuit Relay Module from WGL Designs The Relay 8 offers a quick and easy way for the home automation enthusiast to have relay control using conventional and easily available X-10 power line commands. |
Home Toys
April 2004
Paul Custodio |
Affordable Home Automation Solutions The following three examples are simple home solutions that can be implemented in nearly any home on nearly any budget, using equipment available from X10.com. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Chris Smith |
Advanced X10 Outdoor Automated Lighting It took a while, but I figured a way to solve my needs to "smartly" control my outdoor lighting with X10 that I'd like to share. Basically, I found a way to get different modes of control for my unintelligent outdoor sensors based on time of day periods. |
This Old House
Sal Vaglica |
The Smartest Irrigation Controller You Can Buy The Eve smart controller aims to make irrigation both easier and smarter, and my sprinklers could use a boost of both. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Craig Chadwick |
X10 Debugging Tips If you use X10, you will inevitably experience some of the problems described here. Hopefully this information will help you resolve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
Home Toys
October 2003
Kevin Moss |
The Future of Home Automation on the PC This article discusses home automation, what's available for the PC today, what we can do and what we can't. |
PC World
November 16, 2000
Harry McCracken |
Home, Web-Enabled Home X-traWeb's MAX system will deliver home automation for the Internet age... |
PC Magazine
February 11, 2004
Bill Howard |
No Cords, No Hassles Wireless begets wireless. Once you cut the cord on a couple of devices, you want to cut them all. Here are half a dozen wireless technologies you'll want to take advantage of. |
Home Toys
December 2003
Barry V. Gordon |
Home Automation at the Gordon Residence My home control system interfaces key subsystems that provide specific control over different devices and functions around the house: Security System, HVAC Thermostats, Touchscreens, Lighting, Text to speech, a Whole House Music System, and Voice recognition. |
Home Toys
June 2003 |
Webcomodore: the Ultimate Energy Cost Buster Web services are not only used for entertainment or information technology but also for building/home automation or for energy management. Shovon's Internet-ready Webcomodore product line utilizes the power of the Internet to help users to administer energy spending. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Hin Oey |
IP-Enabled Home Automation IP-enabled devices and components are aware of other components on the net and are capable to interact directly with each other without human interference or a central management computer; when the door opens, the light, heating, and ventilation 'know' that they should become active. |
Home Toys
June 2005
James Russo |
Home Automation From the Leader in Home Tech If you are in the market for a cheap and easy to use home automation kit, check out the Radio Shack kit. If nothing else, the kit can be a starting place for an end user till he or she expands to more sophisticated kits like X10. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Ant Skelton |
Marmitek AWM2 Micro-Module The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 has two switch inputs: the first controls the built-in appliance module, and the second is transmitted as X10 on the mains wiring. |
