Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / January 2004

I'm putting in a new entertainment cabinet.  I'll have about 5 pieces
of gear in 3 cabinet bays. The bays are 16" high, 20" wide, and 20"
deep, with solid doors.  I can put a sensor behind a speaker bay grill
about 4' away.  So, I need a sensor with at least 5 emitters that can

my name is dan irwin and i will soon be moving into a new house. When
i move in i would like to do a number of things to the house and i had
an idea. The house has three rooms where people stay(my bedroom, my
parents bedroom, and the den) and in each i was going to put a vcr and

Anyone out there using a Russound A-Bus network?
I've a question about it's handling of IR signals.
The wall keypad units have an IR pickup.  This is delivered back to the hub unit
for retransmitting to the devices.  What range of IR signals is it known to

I was wondering if anyone could help me with how I could use my PC to
control my remote controlled devices.
I'm planning to use a bluetooth device to connect my headset/microphone to
my PC and voice control my PC via i.e. Ultrahal assistant, from there I will

Can anyone tell me if the Micromark Vigilantern's are any good?
I have used other Micromark cameras, and have seen that the black and white
ones are better than the colour ones in the night due to the Infra-red, but
I don't think that the vigilantern's have the infra red LED's.

Three years after renovating, I'm finally ready to start watching my
living-room video sources from my bedroom, and so it's time to start
using all that home-run wiring I paid for.  I googled this group with
varying success, but most of the posts were a few years old, so I wanted ...

I am in the market to make my MP3 collection accessible via my home theatre
sound system. I have looked at a few of the options out there like the
Prismiq and it's competitors. I am leaning more towards an XP Media PC.
Has anyone done this? Any opinions?

I have added Z-Wave wireless lighting control systems to our product
database.  Included are several wall switch and plug-in modules as well as
controllers.  There is also a new USB interface for HomeSeer and a HomeSeer
/ Z-Wave starter package.

Sorry for the double post.... My first one somehow got listed as a
reply to a post from 1997.... anyways...
I know this has been covered widely, but I am still confused a bit on
the topic.  I have a newly constructed house that has been pre-wired

Does anyone have a good side-by-side comparison of the NX-8 and NX-8E
Anyone have experience with the NX-590E TCP/IP module?  Is it of any use
without this "Osborne-Hoffman Network Receiver" they talk about?
What does it allow you to do?  Could it be used to remote control over ...

Hello everybody, merry christmas and happy new totally atuomated new
year!
Does anyone know a way to monitor on the PC the level of a water
container using x10?

My new project, which will start out small for proof of concept, is to
combine some of my unused computer hardware into a complete multimedia
center capable of playing CDs, DVDs, MP3s, and movie files with audio
outputs to my stereo and composite video outputs to my television.

I recently purchased an RF modulator ($30) to extend the output of my
DVD jukebox and cable TV signal to another room.  When viewing cable
channels with the DVD player turned off or watching a DVD (channel 3
or 4), the picture is great.  However, when watching TV channels with

Does any one know  what is the best affordable security system? What I have
in mind is, a simple motion triggered system that records for 10 or 15 minutes
after it is triggered., for as long as there is someone movement in the room.
This is just for one room. ..Thanks

I just installed Active Home and can't get the timer to work.  If I
click on a module it turns the module on and off.  But if I set the
timer to turn the module on 5 minutes from the current time, nothing
happens in 5 minutes.  I at least expect to see the lever flip on the