Home Automation

If you’d like to install an intercom in your home but dread the wiring that goes along with it, you can get this four-channel home intercom system. You can switch among any of the four channels by hitting one of the large legible buttons, while your voice activates the system and indicator lights show which channels are active. This system transmits clearly over 2 stories and over 1500ft. The base package comes with 2 units and you can purchase additional intercoms for other rooms if you’d like.

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Wireless Home Intercom SystemRead More »

If you’ve looked at new homes lately, at least around where I live, all of the homes are using panels such as FutureSmart’s panel for the wiring distribution hub for audio, video, phone, cable/satellite and network.

Not only with wiring panels in the home help with resale, but they could save your sanity as the panels allow you to quickly change a phone jack to a network jack or hook up satellite to a room in no time. Of course, you need to do the initial install which includes wiring the whole house!

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Welcome to the updated version of a baby monitor. No longer do you have to use the old brown looking Radio Shack baby monitors!

This monitor transmits over the 2.4GHz wireless handheld baby monitor that includes wireless color and infrared camera and the parental unit includes a color LCD screen. The real only product requirement is a baby!

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Welcome to the updated version of a baby monitor. No longer do you have to use the old brown looking Radio Shack baby monitors!

This monitor transmits over the 2.4GHz wireless handheld baby monitor that includes wireless color and infrared camera and the parental unit includes a color LCD screen. The real only product requirement is a baby!

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My keyboard got wet from drool when I ran across this Gizmo. Imagine getting ready for work and having the screen display the local weather map and forecast, traffic, latest news headlines and then you turn on your security system via the same monitor. So many ideas, so little money!

For the price you figured a computer might be included, but the monitor would look schweet in one (or more) walls in my house.

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In the battle for home automation controller technology that started in the 1970’s with X-10, are the Z-wave Alliance, the ZigBee Alliance, as well as several other proprietary formats such as Smarthome’s Insteon.

Today’s Gizmo is a starter kit which uses Z-Wave using the low power IEEE 802.15.4 specification which is a mesh technology for wireless controls.

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Sylvania Z-Wave Deluxe Starter KitRead More »

This rack-mountable multi-zone controller can control music sources, lighting, paging and video from within any zone and provides for six separate zones with expansion available as well and is Ethernet capable!

The Controller will allow you, your spouse, children and guests to listen to their own source with a source or two to spare! You’ll find most Controllers have either one or possibly two input sources and the multi-zoned, multi-sourced controller are quite expensive… not saying this beauty of a product isn’t expensive, but it is well priced.

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Speakercraft’s Multi-Zone A/V ControllerRead More »