Re: Help for novices

["IVB" <ivb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's what I'll be doing via CQC [www.charmedquark.com, be sure to check
out the user systems forum for some GREAT screenshots of how folks are doing
stuff].

- Whole House Audio/Video distribution, mzone/msource with HDTV in each area
- HVAC control
- drape control
- tablet PC/PDA controllable
- irrigation
- security
- lighting
- cameras [nannycam & front-door & external]
- Doorbell ring detector, so we can pause any audio/video and pull up a live
video of the front-door when it rings
- Caller id [so we can pause any audio/video and flash the info on screen,
or perhaps even do it based on the specific person calling in, or perhaps
even announce the caller over the speakers]
- Motion sensors, so we can do the above 2 based on what room we're in.
[i.e., only announce caller ID on the rooms that are in use]
- RFID & electric door strikes, so that we can press a button as we approach
house and door unlocks.
- SMS integration, so we can page the house as we're getting close to turn
up the heat/turn on exterior lights/...

Then we can move into the really cool stuff, like tying multiple events
above together so that when we leave the house, we just punch in a code on
the $250 touchpanel, it turns off all the audio/video, turns down heat,
turns on exterior lights, yada yada, and we just exit.

I'm documenting as I go on www.myhomeautomationpc.com /
www.myhometheaterpc.com . I started with HT, then moved into HT-A
[automation of HT], now into HA.

<Del950@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have no back ground in electricity at all.
> I am how ever interested in home automation.
> I would like to have all my multimedia devices connected together is
> there anything out there for me.
> Also is x-10 company out of business.
>