home automation
Home Automation: Mac Style
05:55 PM / 13 Apr 2004 Filed in: randomness
About five years ago, I started dabbling in home automation. You know, getting your lights to turn on and off when you want them to... stuff like that. I first had a product called Mousehouse that was, well a good "starter kit." It allowed me to, um... turn off and on lights at certain times. Most of the time.
When we moved into our new house, I really couldn't get the Mousehouse software to work consistently. And to top it off, I upgraded my machines from Mac OS 9 to OS X. Mousehouse was not OS X compatible, so I hung up my X-10 switches for a year or so. Then one day while reading MacAddict, I came across a story on a new OS X native home automation application called Indigo. I have to say, Indigo is hands down, one of the best apps I have used to date. As advertised, it did exactly what it was supposed to do... control my X-10 devices.
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