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Home Automation
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New Module Makes Power Monitoring and Control Within Reach of all Homeowners
Surrey, BC – August 20, 2008
Today, Embedded Automation announced its mHome Power Management Module. The
mHome Power Management Module, which provides real-time Read More
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New
home automation company QWebL has been holding a contest on YouTube for video entries
on your frustrations with remote controls and/or your dream feature in a home
automation system. The videos can be
funny, serious or anything in-between Read More
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Mary Jo
Foley covers the mess that has been Fiji.
I’ll have more soon, but Fiji will go down in history as one of the
worst coordinated projects to come out of Microsoft in a long time.
On this week’s Media
Center Show Ian Dixon Read More
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Adding to the long list of mControl add-ins, drivers, and
plug-ins is
their text to speech beta driver that allows the Microsoft Speech API to
make your Vista machine speak text as part of a macro. The speech commands are specific to Windows Read More
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Recently QWebL announced their
intentions to bring their home automation software to Media Center and
other platforms including touchpanels, phones, and more. A week or so ago they also announced
a contest in which they are giving away two $1,000 Read More
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So you have a Sony DVD Changer that doesn’t include the
ability to stream to Extenders. What do
you do? Forget keeping the discs in the
changer and just
batch rip them using Casey Chesnut newest project /dvdMassRip.
Embedded Automation Read More
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I’ve been extra busy the past week and have kind of skipped
covering everything that I wanted too, but now I’m back!
Check
out part 4 and part
4 of the Media Center University sessions at EHX. In these two sessions Todd Rutherford Read More
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VidaBox Releases the vController - a Solid, Feature-Rich Hardware
Solution Integratable with Software-Based Automation packages
Westbury, NY – July 17th – VidaBox
is excited to offer the vController, a powerful rack-mountable automation Read More
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QWebL Contest Winners Receive $1,000 Grand Prize
Houston, TX - Have you ever wished your home was automated
or that your remote controls were a little easier to use? Ever wish you had
home automation controls available on your
Microsoft Media Center Read More
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Last month mControl gained
support for CentraLite JetStream, and this month
UPB has been added to the growing list of supported lighting and home
control systems in Embedded
Automations mControl.
The beta driver, developed by mControl Read More
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Charlie Owen wants to know why
you think that Microsoft hasn’t hit on DVD streaming yet. My reasoning?
Because Microsoft has no idea what market to develop for. Are they focused on their average consumer
market? Because Read More
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Microsoft has finally unwrapped a beta of the long rumored
Vista Media Center SideShow control gadget.
First
spotted by Stuart, you can apply for the beta on Microsoft Connect and get
started starting, but so far it looks pretty much like basic Read More
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Embedded
Automation has released the final build of mControl 2.1 for download. The build is actually the same as the previous
RCGOLD2 release, and as there were no significant issues reported Embedded
Automation has now shifted their focus to Read More
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Embedded
Automation has just added CentraLite JetStream to their growing list of supported
home control systems. CentraLite JetStream
is a new standard for home control based on Zigbee, and as you will learn in
the embedded video it was actually Read More
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The Windows Experience Blog took
a look at the HP MediaSmart Connect.
At some point I’ll also have a review of the unit and compare it
directly to the Linksys Extenders (and D-Link which is pretty much the same).
Speaking of Extenders, Ben Read More
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