Sputnik Light
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I got this at Domani Interiors in Vancouver for a ridiculously good price. Domani is in Yale Town. Highly recommended.
Natasha sitting on our new sofa, with our re-painted house and glass-wall in the background
I’m a bit worried here. We replaced fixtures in our upstairs bathrooms and I thought it’d improve water pressure through them, but it did not. Instead it reduced it to at trickle (from the sinks) and a tepid “bleh” from the showers. The laundry room and kitchen have full pressure, so the supply into the [...]
This is a steal. Considering that 7″ touch screens go for double this (as they are targetted primarily at the automotive market), its even more so. You can get drivers for this devices at this site. Do note that the MacTel drivers are in beta, and only work on 10.4.7 OSX, not on 10.4.8 or [...]
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 [...]
My biggest challenge right now with our new house is making a house that is technically supperb but with a high SAF (Spousal Approval Factor). Our house will be insanely complex technically, with multiple macs and sound systems in different rooms.
My wife has a few critera for anything technical:
1) They have to be “pretty.” Macs [...]
Perceptive Automation :: View topic - Indigo 2.0 Beta 1 Released: Indigo, the home automation software that I will be using for our new house has gone into 2.0 beta. 2.0 is a client server app, which rocks as it allows you to run the server system (which controls the house) in the background, and [...]
