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Home Automation Checklist

by Shawn @ 5:06 pm · filed under Home Automation, House Stuff

Okay, I need to start making a list of things I want to be able to control from the home automation system for my house... So I'm just going to use this blog entry for that. If anyone can think of anything I've forgotten, please leave it as a comment and I'll update this post as necessary...

  • Lights (indoor, outdoor and landscape)
  • Some door locks (front door, server room, office)
  • Heat and air conditioning
  • Music to any room (or outside)
  • Video (all TVs, central PVR/movie server?)
  • Fireplaces
  • Waterfall
  • Sprinklers
  • Spa
  • Cameras
  • Security
  • Windows (open/close windows, shades up/down, electrochromic maybe)

11 Responses to “Home Automation Checklist”

  1. robinq Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 6:55 am

    >>Feed cats

  2. Help Desk Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 6:56 am

    Dude, do have a fob? I have dreams that all of my keys will someday be replaced by one little RFID on a key chain. In my nightmares though I lose my fob along with access to my identity and have to live in the sewers with CRAB PEOPLE.

  3. Shawn Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 10:10 am

    Been looking at the RFID stuff a little bit… even one that gets implanted in you. :)

    http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/08/human-implantable-access-control.html

  4. alek Says:
    November 4th, 2005 at 8:50 pm

    Add “holiday” to the “indoor, outdoor and landscape” lights … … but you knew I’d recommend that!

  5. Bazkaz Says:
    November 11th, 2005 at 1:42 pm

    Have you looked at Crestron?
    http://www.crestron.com/features/applications/home/

    They have an internet based e-control system as well…
    http://www.crestron.com/features/e-control/

  6. Shawn Says:
    November 11th, 2005 at 1:46 pm

    Yeah, I looked at the Crestron stuff last year, and wans’t terribly impressed. These were the two companies I narrowed it down to:

    http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/07/amx-vs-visiomatic-home-automation.html

  7. Bazkaz Says:
    November 11th, 2005 at 2:55 pm

    You ever take those quarters and go visit Visiomatic? :)

  8. J. Says:
    January 1st, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    Shawn-a few design ideas to think about that may need automated: in the bathroom-install large fans for the stinky stuff and to decrease humidity after long showers. You could automate those fans to go off say whenever motion is detected in the bathroom. Maybe that would be overkill.

  9. Johan Says:
    January 8th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

    Don’t forget the Voip / Asterisk doorbell:

    http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=416104&p=1

    Can do some crazy stuff with it…

  10. Matthew Stevens Says:
    July 25th, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    Centrally-controlled roomba vacuums. (requires non-trivial hacking, currently).
    Ultra-violet lights in kitchen & bathroom to kill germs, turns on for x amount of time when no motion is detected.
    Auto-syncing of car hard drive audio library with home audio library when new music added to ‘car playlist’ on personal computers.

  11. Insteon Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    I did the auto-syncing of car audio library via wifi (802.11b) but the ultra-violet lighting is a new one to me… The security camera stuff is even more useful now when you combine it with face recognition software and perform actions based on the person in the camera field of view.

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