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Power usage Yesterday, we had a bit of a scorcher.  117F.  The day before was 110, so a difference of 7 degrees.  Look at the difference in power usage.  It's absolutely nuts. 7 degrees translated into 2kw of power.  That's crazy. ...

Helpful Links While writing all this automation code, I found tons of useful information out there.  I'll try to keep this post updated with some of the things I found that we especially useful. Insteon Command Reference AD2USB Forums (vista...

Playing with sensors: I've been goofing around lately with some one-wire sensors.  I have RJ45 jacks all over the house, and I've been wiring them into the one-wire hub, and getting temperature data on all the rooms.  The problem is, I...

This will eventually be the home of my journey through building a home automation system, from scratch.  I am DIY'ing everything, from the installation of all the hardware, right down to writing the software for it from scratch. This week I've...

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