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Haven't posted in  while...   I have five ceiling fans controlled by Lutron MA‑LFQHW Fan controls which have worked flawlessly for over 3 years. These are not home automation lighting controllers, however, they use some sort of PLC to control fan speed and light dimming. They are great for my...

I've got my orders to move again. I'll be moving to Fayetteville, NC in August 2010 (getting assigned to HQ, XVIII Airborne Corps). We've known since the first of the year, and have been looking for a home there since I should be close to retirement eligibility by the time I'm due to PCS from...

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Hey guys, Thought I'd check in. I've been training for my deployment for the past three months and am set to leave in the next 10 days (they have not told us exactly when yet). I haven't had many opportunities to check the forums - and this is my first post in any forum anywhere since leaving...

I've been using Dyndns.org for a while now, switching to it from no-ip.com due to it being supported by many routers, cameras etc (no nead to run a update program on your PC). Well, I've been letting my router handle it for quite a while now. Today, just for giggles, I added my hostaname...

Gang, I need to get my network upstairs. There's no practical way to get CAT5 from downstairs, where most of my network is to upstairs. I have a wifi router, so that's an option - but 3 of the devices (Dlink DCS-900 cameras) I plan on using are non-wifi capable. I plan on having the...

Guys, I'm looking for a good portable media player to take with me when I go overseas. It needs to be durable, which at first made me think "Flash Based," but the storage is waaay too limited on those. I'm thinking I need 30-100GB to be able to hold what I want... Now as to what I want to be...

This wekend I installed a 300GB HDD ( http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=7L300R0-DT&cat=HDD ) into one of these: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD363N&cat=NET It's working great and is easily shareable with all my machines and has its own ftp server. I essentially got an "almost'...

Guys, I'm putting together a "nanny cam" system based on IP cameras. I know it's not the best way to go about this, but I already have a good bit of the hardware. We're hiring an au pair to help my wife with the kids while I'm deployed ( http://www.cocoontech.com/index.php?showtopic=4852 ) and...

Gang, Geeks.com has another Small form Factor PC for a great price: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=83...-_-NETVISTAmain I'm going to get one to use as a DVR for my IP camera system.

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I have a ViewSonic ViewPad 1000 that I bought from a defunct .com biz via ebay. It had a genuine WinXP Pro COA on it, but had the company's volume license XP Pro OS installed over the original. Becuase of this I could not install any updates via Windows Update. I contacted MS, via a special...

I have a T-Amp connected to my HACS AB8SS to provide whole-house TTS announcements. It's been working great for about 8 months. About a week ago, my speakers started making an intermittent crackle, maybe once every 20 minutes for a split second. I thought it was either my USB sound deviec or...

As some of y'all know, I have to move every few years, and becuase of this I am a "serial" renter. Last week our property management company called us and told us that the home owner's daughter's family was moving back to San Antonio and will be moving into the house. So now we're going to...

Is there a PDA/Mobile phone version of cocoontech?

This is a dupliate post I made at the Cinemar forum, but figured some of y'all that aren't members there might benefit from it too... I've been using an old ATI Radeon 7500 and PowerDVD5 Codecs for playback via DVDLobby/ZoomPlayer for just about a year. I've always had some performance issues...

Guys, I found this link over at AVS in a thread discussing curtains for a theater screen: http://www.remotecontrolcurtain.com/product1.html There stuff 'sounds' pretty good (can't say looks becuase they're all not-so-good animations) and the prices are amazing, $159 for a complete remote contol...

I recently moved my IR emitters from my SECU16IR to a Xantech amplifed connecting block. The connecting block is connected to the IR out of my Ocelot using a Smarthome IR Linc (essentially an emitter and receiver bound together). This combination works very well - and I did not need the zoned...

Guys, I recently purchased some new IR hardware after years of settling for sub-100% reliability from my various IR hardware. Here's how my new setup is: Before I had trouble getting IR into the Ocelot reliably, and had to really aim my remotes at my components in order to get them to...

Do any of y'all use dynDNS to manage your dynamic IP? I changed over to it last fall from no-ip.com becuase it was supported by my router and IP cameras and was one less thing I had to run on a PC, but I have not been able to reach my domain nor dynDNS' webpage for the past two days. I have my...