This weekend I installed three dimmers in our house, as well as the Indigo software on an extra iBook I have laying around. I put the ControlLInk behind the bed.
This is a first test and it was spectacular. The dimmers are very nice indeed, with custom ramp-rates and such. They are $40.00 bucks a piece though, so rapidly become expensive. However there are cheaper models for $20.00 available.
I also this weekend bought a MacMini for $299. Core Solo. And I found a place to get a touch-screen LCD for $165.00 bucks.
Today I’m going to try to diagram how I’m doing the system and I’ll post that.
UPDATE: The touch screen has Mac drivers that ONLY work with 10.4.7 on the mac, but work across PowerPC. E-mail them if you want Intel. I also managed to do some URL jangling and download 10.4.7 delta, so I can upgrade my new Mac Mini to only 10.4.7.
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Please keep us posted. I have drooled over home automation on Mac for some time and have not the money, time or guts to dig in. Thanks for the info.
Cog
touch screen for $130? do tell.
Posted 09 Oct 2006 at 12:35 pm ¶Will that touch screen work with Max OSX? I didn’t see that at the site.
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