Re: The Home Automation Key Rack

["David Paterson (Pixi)" <david.paterson@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:25:20 -0000, you wrote:

>This one's from the HomeVision mailing list. An interesting DIY project
to
>tell who's at home.
>
>"This was one of my first [certainly my first successful]
automation
>project. The basic problem was that I wanted HV to know who was home,
and
>who wasn't. It wasn't enough to just know if anyone was home or not --
HV
>had to know who."
>
>http://www.sboyle.com/hardware/custom.htm

Absolutely brilliant!  Just when I think I've seen every HA idea and
gizmo, somebody comes up with something like this.

What I really like is the simplicity and effectiveness, using only a
handful of cheap components, and apart from somebody forgetting to
"plug
in" it's pretty much foolproof.  It's a good design philosophy, worth
following for all projects.

I can already think of several ways to extend and expand the idea - it's
definitely one worth copying for all sorts of applications.

David P.

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