Homeowner Forum / Home Automation / February 2007

I'm looking for a cheap way to dispense a pellet of kibble into a dog crate
upon receipt of an X-10 command.  Most automatic dog feeders mete out a
whole meal's worth and that's way too much.  When the pups are sitting in
their crates, chewing their nylabones and not creating a ...

Can anyone shed any light on why HomeVoice has been discontinued?
Over the past several years several quadriplegics who relied on it told me
it was the only VR software that was reliable enough to meet their needs so
I am surprised to see that AFT has discontinued it. AFT licensed ...

I use an Smarthome 1132CU to control the
lights/etc. in my house.  With the new
dates for daylight savings time, the
1132CU is going to have problems.  I

Knowing that the dates for DST are changing in the US, I have been
trying to figure out if I need to do anything (or can do anything) in my
old Active Home setup.
I have a simple setup and only run macros from the CM11A module which is

Some might recall the discussions a while back about patents and 360 degree
technology.  Some interesting followup here (registration free, but
required, I believe)
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Robert Adler, co-inventor of the remote control and a prolific inventor,
died Thursday at the age of 93.  Along with inventor and fellow engineer
Eugene Polley, Adler helped bring the first commercially successful wireless
TV remote -- the Zenith Space Command -- to market in 1956.

I just started using Active Home Pro. I am having a heard time setting
the timers. I think it is because I have other languages installed on
my computer and some of the text doesn't show up readable in the
program. As a result, I cant change the times with the buttons. It

It is really great to find this group. I've been an x10 user for 20 years,
maybe.
Since then I seemed to have gotten dumber and dumber about this stuff. I
need your help.

Has anybody tried the Waveman series of Tx & Rx devices?
Any good/bad reviews ?
Do these happen to be compatible with the X10 RF equipment?
Any feed back at all would be appreciated.

My new apartment has a built-in heater/ac unit.  I'd like to build a
primitive thermostat for it (keep it off during the day, but on in time
for me to get home from work, etc), like I did with the window units in
my old apartment with X10.

All,
I have a TiVO box that does not have the IR code built into control my
uVerse Motorola STB.  I would like to know if there is a IR box that
would take in an IR signal (learned) and output another signal

Our ATT 24?? series phones are giving up the ghost. (some don't ring,
batteries failing, no handsfree on some units... etc)
I'm looking for a set to replace them, and though it isn't
specifically on topic per-sey, I thought folks here might know.

Mark,
Thanks for the related links. I was more then just a little surprised at the
holier then thou reaction to my post.  I thought sharing both ideas and
information on interesting related products was exactly what the group was

Australia announced plans to ban incandescent bulbs.
A story in The Age at...
http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/the-glass-ceiling/2007/02/20/117173376618
1.html
says...

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