Re: Newbie

[Richard Sillitto <richard@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome - Gosh this is a busy group.

>
>>  First very open question (!) : What would be a good thing to get
>>  things going - ie what should I try to automate first?
>
>Easy to answer - automate some lights. Get a few nice lighting states
>for things like "watching movie", "reading book",
and "hoovering",
>available at the press of a button.

I shall give that a go. I realise I might be opening up a can of
worms, but can anyone recommend a good piece of control/management
software for Macs?


>  > Second, hopefully more specific question: I have a fish tank
that I
>>  am keen to integrate with a home automation system -
>>  if nothing more than controlling the light above the tank. Does
>>  anyone else here have  experience of automating a fish tank?
>>  If so, how far did you go?
>
>There was a discussion on this subject about a year ago, following a
>similar question by Stuart Poulton.
>
>If you search for "aquarium" at www.ukha-archive.com you can
read the
>thread from there far better than by searching on Yahoo!

Excellent! Thanks for the pointer.

Richard.