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So I'm up at the In-laws this weekend for Thanksgiving, and I get a "Motion Detected in the Garage" from my house message on my phone. I pull up Indigo Touch and look at the device list just in time to see someone turn on my garage light and turn off my driveway light. So I remotely turn on the...

I am in the unenviable position of having two HDTVs without either discreet on/off IR codes or serial control. That makes it pretty difficult to set up macros that turn the TV on or off, as my HA software can never know what state the TV is in. The solution is current detection, as I have long...

I have a new Shuttle XPC (well, it's new to me). It has onboard VGA as well as DVI out from an AGP card. The onboard integrated video is fine except for games, but the AGP card is way too noisy for anything BUT games. Because it is a shuttle, there is no room for a quieter cooler on the AGP...

I'm looking for a magnetic relay switch (aka dry contact sensor, aka what is wired to a DS10A) with the smallest activation gap. Ideally it would be the rectangular kind. The ones I see brag about the size of the activation gap, but I'd like one that doesn't close unless the magnetic is just...

Hello everyone, I have been working on automating my window blinds with a basic design I found on the Instructables website. Each blind control unit is a self contained, infrared controlled, 4 AA battery powered little box that is mounted to the blinds. That way, I wouldn't have to run any...

Hello all, I just bought a Dynex DX-LCD42HD-09 HDTV, and it has a USB port and a RS-232 port. The RS-232 is a weird audio socket-like connector, not the D-SUB I would expect to see. Presumably, one of these inputs can be used to control the TV. Are there any resources for finding out how to...

So if I have a bunch of touchscreens that use a VGA port for the video and USB for the input function, can I connect multiple touchscreens to the same computer by using a powered VGA splitter for the video? Each touchscreen USB would be plugged in as normal. So for 8 touchscreens, for example...

Howdy all. So my home automation system can control my tv now with an irTrans. That's cool. Now I can perhaps tackle one of my wife's biggest annoyances: how loud commercials get. Seems like I should be able to take a sensor, hook it up to an analog reporting device (like an Insteon IO-Linc)...

I taking the step of adding my a/v to my home automation (Insteon controlled by Indigo). The irTrans usb looks like the best solution, as the Mac running indgo is next to the tv. I can't really move any of it, as it is all behind a baby-gate to protect from grasping hands. My question for those...

Check this out, if you haven't seen it: (very cool, way to go senor biochemtronics): http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-A-Mo...roller-For-Les/ That piece got me thinking... all it takes to turn blinds is a battery powered DC motor hooked to a relay. Relay closes, motor turns. Lo and behold...