MobiLinc, my current favorite iOS app for controlling Insteon systems, has recently added voice control. Until iOS allows access to Siri for easy application integration, the feature isn’t ideal since you need to start up the app and turn it…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
We’ve controlled lights, checked our mail, connected our doorbell, and wired our smoke detectors, so let’s take a look at another device to connect to our Insteon system: the Insteon garage door control and status kit. Really, this device is…
Posted by Matt Chiste
March 16
About a year ago, as I was considering various ways to save energy, I thought about installing air duct dampers at various points of my A/C system to control temperature with more precision throughout the house (rather than just the…
Posted by Matt Chiste
March 12
XBMC is my favorite media center software. It’s open-source and runs on just about anything from old Apple TVs to full-blown computers. But the cheapest device available to run it on is probably the Raspberry Pi. They’re not the most…
Posted by Matt Chiste
March 8
Smoke detectors are a great investment in protecting your home; the First Alert devices with ONELINK allow all detectors in your house to connect to each other, so when the one in the basement goes off all the others are…
Posted by Matt Chiste
March 4
- 3d printing
- 2450
- amazon
- amazon echo
- app
- blue iris
- camera
- control device
- dd-wrt
- doorbell
- drywall
- electrical
- energy
- ethernet
- geo-fence
- green energy
- hdmi
- home automation
- home improvement
- insteon
- intellihome
- iolinc
- iphone
- isy-994i
- isy994i
- KeypadLinc
- led
- lights
- light strip
- lock
- makerbot
- media
- mobilinc
- morninglinc
- motion sensor
- network
- outletlinc
- programming
- quickstart
- scenes
- security
- sensing device
- thermostat
- wiring
- xbmc
