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This site describes my current
home automation system.
I first became interested in HA when I [as I think most people do]
bought an X-10 ActiveHome kit. I outgrew the thing in about two months and
started my full blown addiction to HA [more expensive than heroine, but
you don't have to stick needles in your arm.] with the purchase of a
HomeVision controller. From there my system expanded rapidly. I added
another computer, the Slink-e, HV Phone/CID add-on, touch screen, LCD, HV
multi-function expansion board, and more recently a Caddx security system,
and iButton hardware form Dallas Semiconductor.
My first system was installed in an apartment in Midtown, NYC. It was small and
sloppy [both the HA and the apartment]. All of the components lived
on a bookshelf, wires were run around the baseboards, and anything that
needed to be semi-permanent was double-sided taped to the wall. But I
learned quite a bit, and when I moved into a real house in July 2001 I was
better able to install my new system. I now have an entire closet I can
dedicate to this addiction, and I can cut holes in the walls to make
things look better. [Well, first it looks a bit worse -- but then better.]
I'm going to try to document my system on this site in as much detail I
can manage. But websites have a tendency to fall out of date as new and
exciting HA projects come up. I've tried to get the site as complete as I
could before I published it, so hopefully there's not too much interesting
stuff left out.
This site uses standard navigation techniques [if you can't figure it
out, you've chosen the wrong hobby]. Feel free to link to anything you
like, but I haven't settled on the organization yet so things may move or
disappear.
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