Re: hi there

["Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, you've come to the right place :-)

I think HA falls into 3 major categories:

1) Lighting
2) Heating
3) Sound & Vision
4) Menial labour

4 categories, HA falls into 4 categories.

1) Lighting.

Apart from just turning on the lights when you enter a room (proper
occupancy detection is a lot harder than it sounds), there are other
aspects. Dim the lights when you play a movie, set a scene for a
party, switch the outdoor lights on when you let the dog out for a wee
at night.

2) Heating.

Heating could range from a new thermostat all the way to some fancy
HVAC system that gets your house up to the right temperature for when
you wake up.

3) Sound and Vision

Massive area this, from some hi-end hifi system & home cinema to whole
house audio with announcements from your HA server.

4) Menial labour

Have an army of mechanical supermen do your bidding! Ok, so maybe not
supermen, but you can have a whole host of devices to the boring jobs
like hoovering and mowing the lawn for you.

Hope that whets your appetite a little more ;-)

On 6/28/07, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > am new to the group today, just stumbled upon it while
> > surfing and feeding my new addiction for home automation,
> > with which i'm taking my first tentative steps - it seemed a
> > natural progression from a reular home network.
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> Welcome Jeremy
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> Get ready to hammer your credit card! :)
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