Have you ever wished you could create a list of all of the email addresses that you have communicated with over the years? Perhaps you’re building an email distribution list or need to notify everyone that you’re changing your address. Whatever the reason, the task is very simple if you are using an email client …
If you tinker with technology then chances are you already know what the “Internet of Things” is all about. If you don’t know, then my question to you is, where have you been!? For those of you not in the know, here’s a quick primer. “The Internet of Things is a network of Internet-enabled objects, …
In my first post, in this three-part series, I wrote about how I physically interfaced my Ademco Alarm Panel to my Home Automation computer. In this article, I will show you how to capture the data stream that comes through that interface, how to parse it and then how to make use of it in …
In my last post I wrote about interfacing my Ademco alarm panel into my Home Automation (HA) network. Since I completed the installation I have had an on again and off again problem with the Mac receiving output from the AD2USB unit. The problem manifested itself via the Serial Bridge software (more on that later) …
I have gone through many iterations in the applications that drive my Home Automation (HA) system but so far I have held firm to the underlying Insteon technology that powers it. A long-standing goal for moving to the next level has been to interface my Ademco Alarm panel into my HA system so I can …
I have an extensive home automation implementation that I have built over the years based, for the most part, on Insteon technology. I recently decided that I wanted to integrate my Ademco security system into my setup so I could take advantage of its vast array of sensors. I have been using an ISY-99i controller …
I have had an open item on my To-Do-List to set up a WebDAV Server for well over a year now. I needed a good distraction from my work activities for the weekend so I decided I would –finally- make this list item a reality. For those that don’t know what WebDAV is, let me …
My son has a number of game consoles and has really been into his XBOX 360 of late. He recently acquired a new title that was complaining about our network configuration and refused to let him play. After hearing his description of the message, I figured the issue had something to do with my very …
Back in October 2009, I wrote an article about Home Automation and mentioned that one of my next tasks was to figure out a way to “sense” my garage door status so I would always know if it were open or closed. Initially it may not seem particularly valuable to know the status of one’s …
We are finally ready to complete this series and leave you with a fully functional and cost free backup solution. Now that you have your server setup and have an initial copy of the data you want to backup on the box, we’re ready to go back to our source machine and setup our backups. …
