Home Automation

When a visitor presses the button on the door intercom, the DoorBell Fon rings the phones in your home with a distinctive ring. Pick up the phone to converse with the door. If you are on the phone when a visitor arrives a call waiting tone will sound to alert you. In fact, the DoorBell Fon system will even work without phone service. Up to 2 intercom stations can be attached. Add the optional lock controller and an electric door strike and you can unlock the door from the phone by pressing “*”. Works with answering machines, most home PBX phone systems, and phone-company provided services like voice mail.

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Are you a developer and interesting in home automation? Well you can spend an investment of $3500 as well as $1000 for your first product to develop for Zigbee or just $99 to work with INSTEON. We’re working on an article comparing the various home automation technologies but these are the two most reliable technologies and at a cost of $99 to be a developer for INSTEON or $4500 for the first product (and $500 for additional products) with Zigbee, INSTEON is developer friendly.

Become a pioneer in the fledgling next wave of home automation technologies and be the first to market with your unique software solution.

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INSTEON was created to replace the aging X10 technology by providing a high reliability home automation network. Another goal was to make this technology affordable.

The ICON line by Smarthome meets these requirements. At a price tag of $19.99, the dual mesh network technology of INSTEON is available to all. Upgrade your old light switches to a Decora-styled INSTEON node.

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Have you wanted to install security cameras around your house but have not due to the work involved running the power cables and the video cables? The Geeks have found a great solution in the the Holy Grail of surveillance cameras!

Smarthome offers a 2.4GHz Solar Color PIR Camera & Receiver for under $300. The camera charges up and is powered via solar energy so no electrical cables need to be run. The camera detections motion up to 26 feet away and then transmits video AND audio wirelessly to the receiver up to 250 feet.

This is a dramatic step forward for truely wireless cameras as this is the first and only truely wireless camera setup we have seen. The only issue is that a minimum of 3 Lux lighting is required to capture images.

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Are you a fan of weather but hate the Weather Channel commercials and waiting for the “eights” to get your local forcast? Oregon Scientific, the leader in home weather stations, brings you this touch-screen weather station console with four wireless remote sensors which tracks wind speed, rainfall measurements, indoor and outdoor temperature and barometric pressure with pressure history in bar chart format.

This weather station does it all wireless with an easy to use interface and if you have satellite and cannot get your locals on the eights is a high tech way to get the weather around your house.

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