LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
What Are Lumens?
Lumens, typically abbreviated as lm, are units of measurement specifying the total quantity of visible light emitted by a lamp or light source...
Lighting And Automation Systems
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
10 Best Decorative LED Wall Lights
If you want to liven up your home office, game room or studio, decorative LED wall lights might be just what you’ve been searching for. LED lights...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
A Brief Technology Overview of the Lighting Control Marketplace
Introduction When considering lighting control and home automation, there are many options in the marketplace, to include selection of a supplier...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
How to Use Apple’s Siri to Activate Your Philips Hue Lights
Home automation is all about convenience; the easier it is to execute a task, the better. This has been something of a conundrum for smart lighting...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
The Power of Smart Lighting – The Best and Brightest Wireless Bulbs
The concept of home automation is a sum of many parts, but as far as the intersection between consumers and creators is concerned, “smart” lighting...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Siri Home Automation Integration With Raspberry PI
Part 1 – The Basics (using a Linux VM) Intro After trying and failing to get SiriProxy up and running last year, I was inspired to get it working on...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Siri Home Automation Integration from Start to Finish – Part 2 – Raspberry PI Installation
This is Part 2 of an article on Siri integration with a Home Automation system. Part 1 can be found here The instructions are similar to those in...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Siri Home Automation Integration from Start to Finish – Part 3 – Home Automation Integration
I run HomeSeer at home, so I’ll explain the steps for integrating with this. The same method could be used with any system that can receive messages...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
CommandFusion Interview
What trends do you see in Home Automation? I think that with home automation becoming more affordable, demand will increase. This will bring a whole...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Absolute Zero Home Theater Curtains
Light Control Thousands of dollars’ worth of audio visual wizardry can be worthless without proper sound and light control. Any home theater with a...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Why I Love My Lutron RadioRA 2 System
A few months ago I installed Lutron’s RadioRA 2 wireless lighting system in my own home, along with their wireless thermostat and Sivoia QS Wireless...
ENERGY & OTHER HOME SYSTEMS
The Diversified Business Model of Leviton
1. Most people know Leviton for its electrical products, primarily for the building industry, but the company’s portfolio expands well beyond that...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Schlage LiNK and Z-Wave
Schlage LiNK™ looks like a simple upgrade to a home’s exterior entry lockset but is in fact the hub of an entire system that lets homeowners monitor...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Automating Your Home with UPB
Why Simply-Automated? To be honest, that decision was made several years ago and I don’t remember all the reasons, but I know the basics. First off...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
The WGL All Housecode Transceiver V572RF32
The WGL All Housecode Transceiver V572RF32 Author: Bobby Green The V572RF32 is the brainchild of Warren Lohoff, a San Antonio electronics engineer...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Want to Go Green? Automate your Home!
Home automation technology is becoming as synonymous with sustainability as it is with convenience. Incorporating smart home technology into a new or...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
How to Choose a Home Automation System
The promise of home automation has been with us for many years and you can see it on a small scale in many forms. The washboards, ‘ice boxes’ and...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Home Automation Portal Appliance: Part 2
“Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work” From Out of Control by Kevin Kelly Introduction In our previous Home Toys paper we...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Intermingling X-10 and New Lighting Technologies
Lighting control has come a long way since two scientists developed X-10 around 40 years ago. X-10 has grown to provide lighting control at...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Automation in the digital home
Background In August 2004, my parents, Gary and Lynda Breton, bought an unfinished house in Chandler, Arizona, after the builder ran out of funds to...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
HOME AUTOMATION FROM THE LEADER IN HOME TECH
Home automation was once an area relegated to techies. X10 was essentially the granddaddy of all home automation systems and was one of the earliest...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
X10 Automated Outdoor Lighting
Normally, one uses a motion sensor to control lights directly with X10 commands or indirectly via a “virtual wiring” macro in programs such as Active...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Leviton DHC Switches
Well, it’s time to change over the house from those old ivory X10 pushbuttons to something a little more contemporary with higher quality and...
LIGHTING AND AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
Two-Way Lamp and Appliance Modules with Status Polling, Automatic Status Response, and Automatic Gai
The X-10 Two-Way Lamp and Appliance Modules are the latest in the range of X-10 Two-Way Modules. When used with the X-10 Two-Way Computer Interface...