Home Automation Log Revisited Last year, I wrote an article entitled "Log home automation? Excuse me?". (
http://www.logcabindirectory.com/articles/home_automation.htm) The article was picked up by dozens of blogs and syndicated services and since then I've received tons of email asking questions about home automation and the company whose products I mentioned, X-10 (see: http://www.home-automation.us)
First, I will discuss the company, X-10 was a pioneer of the line "in-your-face" marketing. Anyone who knew about X-10 in the first days of the Internet can remember the numbing garish ads this company seemed to have pinned to every website in the universe. God forbid if you opted for one of their reports or requests for advertising, as you would you jump all day with offers and last minute special offers.
The company and the vast majority of regular Internet users learned the hard way not to get involved with marketing techniques. Companies that practice this tactic has ended up losing the support of their clients and potential clients have learned to avoid these companies. I do not blame X-10 for their unconventional approach to marketing. When the Internet was first made available to companies, we do not know what would work or what was needed to attract customers. This was the "Wild West" of online marketing. Good companies made some bad mistakes, but eventually learned that most good products promoted properly will yield positive results.
X-10 is a survivor of the dot-com crisis "and the awkwardness of early marketing online promotion. Today they are 30 + years old company providing quality products with excellent warranties and free shipping to U.S. addresses (About $ 50). Today, they are a leading retailer in the Web world and a leading manufacturer for several lines of best-selling consumer electronics products.
Revisiting Home Automation Log
Home automation is making things easier and more convenient, that's what you want - and when you want it to happen. Home automation is "green" and good for global warming.
Although my main objective is log home, the following refers to all the houses they are constructed of wood, brick or even manufactured. Home automation is making things easier and more convenient, is what you want and when you want it to happen. With X-10 ActiveHome Pro, your imagination is all that is needed to make your home "your castle automated." Using this system, you can program your thermostat to enable or disable your schedule and to wake up to a pot of hot coffee, and you have your lights on or off at predetermined times.
This electronic brain for your home is managed by a control system package for Windows PCs, but your computer does not need to stay connected to the system to function after it has been programmed. Once you download your behaviors in the interface of the computer, you can plug into almost any electrical outlet in the house and she goes off without assistance. The software allows you to program the behavior of a number of devices in your house, and it is very robust and easy to use. Installing the hardware is a breeze. Outfit lamps or devices you want to control with small inexpensive modules that allow the computer interface ActiveHome Pro to communicate via signals that are broadcast through the power of your son home.
You can even program the system to do tricks using the ActiveHome Pro software. To download plug-in is available from X10 (for $ 50) that allows modules to be controlled on a "what-if" basis. For example: If it's past dusk and the motion sensor detects movement of the module in the living room and turn on the lights. Or, if you have some programming experience, you can download a free software development kit and write a control program that interfaces with your e-mail.
Posted on July 1, 2010.
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