Have you read any of the experiences
of “normal”
people in the Orange connected home, and the Laing “Internet
house”?
Barcode scanner on a fridge? The
amount of
time you spend getting the thing working is probably more than you’d
spend jotting things down on a blackboard for years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m
not
deliberately trying to come across as a luddite, I’m just trying to
say
that whenever you get the urge to automate, as we all do from time to time,
take a step back, and think to yourself, is it worth it, and will it make
life
better? Asking the wife is probably a reasonable sanity check
J
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 June 2002 20:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] The
Solution
to Room Occupation Detection
>
HA
is fantastic in the right circumstances, but it is too easy to
over-automate,
so it actually gets in the way rather
>
than making life easier.
Gimme an
example Tim? The only thing I have un-done is automated lighting in
my
study, but I still have automated lighting in plenty of other
locations.
As
you
say, your circumstances are unusual, but just because you don't want some
of
the more advanced stuff is no reason to say it's overkill for
others.
M.
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