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Monday, 11 October 2004 |
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Rather than wait another few weeks to publish my Home CCTV Server review I've decided to make t a two part affiar. Part one is now on-line... "I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased, whilst prices have fallen. Par for the course where most technology is concerned I suppose. A year or so ago I bought a Samsung CCTV switcher from eBay to view our cameras by modulating its output round all the TVs in the house. Using its simple timer it switched between each camera at a set interval, while this worked it was frustrating as the camera you wanted to view was rarely the one that was on the screen at that particular moment in time. The eBay acquired switcher died a month or so ago and so the search for the "upgrade" was on"... |
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Monday, 09 August 2004 |
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Submission by Len Marten - What is Z-Wave? Z-Wave is networking protocol developed by Zensys. It's not, as some might think, a tangible product, but a networking protocol developed specifically with Home Automation in mind. The idea is, that manufacturers will use Z-Wave technology so that their devices and modules can communicate with each other... |
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Saturday, 29 May 2004 |
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Submitted by Simon McCaughey - The idea of the Showcenter is to make media files stored on your PC available for use on your TV in the living room. I don't have (and can't get) broadband, so my selection of media is limited to a few ripped DVDs, loads of MP3's, and about 1000 photos. My main objective was to remove the DVD player and VCR from the living room, so I only have a TV, HiFi, TiVo and Showcenter... |
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Monday, 26 April 2004 |
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Submission by Nigel Garwood - Since having my little girl I decided that it would be a good idea to put our Video (Hitachi), DVD (Dansai), Freeview Box (Thompson) and Amplifier(Philips) in a cupboard under the stairs. This was to prevent them being "played with". To make this a practical solution we needed to be able to control these items from three separate locations; living room, kitchen and bedroom. Our house is wired with CAT5 throughout... |
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Saturday, 20 March 2004 |
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- I have had a Philips Pronto for quite a long time now but it has not been the most popular control device in my house. It works well in integrating multiple IR remotes but it has not been very helpful in integrating with the rest of my HA system... |
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Saturday, 06 March 2004 |
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After what was perceived to be a relatively slow start for the industry - things are finally making progress. The Connected Home Conference - September 2003 - focused on partnerships to really push the industry forward. The technologies are in place and the service aggregators are ready - the challenge is communicating this to the marketplace. Building PARTNERSHIPS are the key to maximising this markets potential was one of the key messages... |
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Monday, 01 March 2004 |
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- This project is to address a major problem faced by many Home Automators, who are looking for a more intelligent way to monitor the status of their equipment throughout the home. In the past, I have struggled with monitoring Audio Visual Equipment status in various zones of the home. I used Smartlink probes hardwired into HomeVision, but when I added multi zone IR distribution via FirM, the system could not work within a multi zone environment... |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2003 |
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Submitted By Ken Watt - First Impressions - First of all I must apologise for the tardiness of this review as I was supposed to do it weeks ago and got caught up in other things I'm afraid, however on the plus side it did give me longer to evaluate the remote, or more accurately, for my better half to do so... |
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Thursday, 28 August 2003 |
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Submission by Rob Mouser - Just down at our workshops spraying the grills to my latest speaker addition. So while the first coat dries I thought I would post my findings. These units are the Sonance Virtuoso 831DR's. I've already got a barn full of Sonance units and have to say that I am really impressed by the quality. These units were destined for my office but when I saw the size of them 'in the flesh' I decided to move my Sonance Symphony 622TR's from the lounge to my office and put these new ones in their place... |
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