RE: just to say hello!

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,

Welcome aboard :-)

How much does it cost ?

...how much have you got ???? and then add a bit.

It costs whatever you are prepared to spend. If you are weak-willed
then
membership of this list will suck all the money out of your account in
an
instant due to constant posting about "bargains".

Buy or Build ?

Depends on desires, bank balance and ability. There is a mixture of
"off the
shelf" hardware and software as well as a fair amount of homebrew
software/hardware. Some of the homebrew stuff is done because it is
cheaper,
some of it is done because the required features/products just arent
available commercially.

Everyone has different needs so develop their own systems to give the
features they want although there is a great deal of common ground
between
many of them.

You will quickly find that this list has a wealth of information in ANY
area
of Home Automation, Home Entertainment, Home Networking that you could
need.

There is sometimes a lot of information on Cars, Cheesy Chips and other
way
off topic stuff as well but lets not go there :-)

Have Fun.

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon McCaughey [mailto:simonmcc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 August 2002 21:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] just to say hello!


> Welcome to the list, fellow 'Norn Iron' person

thanks

> Our glorious leader, Mark McCall, is from Northern Ireland, as am
I,
> and a few others on the list, like Micheal, Dermot and Andrew i
think.
> Each of us have various implementions of home automation,
homevision,
> comfort, homeseer etc... so if you explain your requirements we
should
> be able to show you it working.

Sounds great - I wouldnt say *requirements* so much as dreams - but
here
goes anyway -
1. Automatic gates / garage door
2. I really would like something like the comfort panel system for
    home security - perhaps those PIR detectors with
mini
    cameras built-in
3. Remote conrol/monitoring (via web) - status / real time camera shots
4. ???

What I would really be interested in is knowing how much all this stuff
costs (roughly) from people who have done it. Also as I program/build
computers for a living is it worth trying to develop stuff yourself, or
are
the pre-made systems flexable enough to do what you want on the budget
you
want?

Thanks

Simon.

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