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Total sense. Part of my engineering background was in developing indoor wireless systems for a major national carrier. I can definitely appreciate the difficulties of indoor wireless propagation so your suggestion makes complete sense and is a good suggestion for anyone looking to expand a system.

For now, I have decided to go with the Intermatic (??? - seems to be marketed under several names) HA101 kit that has two lamp modules and the HA07 controller. Perhaps that is not the best long term controller, but it will get me started. I also picked up a couple of GE ZDW120 wall switch...

Thanks, Lou. That pretty much confirms the impression I had been getting. I looked at the Global Cache hardware earlier after I stumbled across it while looking at the iRule iPhone/iPad remote control software. My receiver - Denon AVR-3811CI has a RS-232 port I believe. Some of the GC...

Thanks, Dan! I watched the video on the Vera 2 and it looks pretty slick. To be sure I understood that, it does appear that the Vera can integrate to the AV equipment per their video. What I would like to be able to do eventually is to start a movie and bring down the lights to a movie...

This is a great thread! I am a home automation newbie as well though I have been interested for many years. I have a degree in electrical engineering as well as a background in wireless telecom and data networking so I get the technological concept here. Where I am trying to wrap my head is...