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    Doorbell Resistor?

    Just a thought... A lot of "electronic" doorbells (non mechanical... plays a melody/chime through a speaker) use a diode across the pushbutton.. This lets the chime have current to finish the chimes.. (westminster etc...) after the button is released. If it was a diode instead of a resistor...
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    God Bless America

    Just to provide an exception to any rule... In mid 90's i went to a Toronto Blue-Jays vs Cleveland Indians game in old municipal stadium in Cleveland. The 6 gentlemen from Canada sitting in front of us were great.. but they had no problem expounding on how much better Canada was than the...
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    God Bless America

    (Emphasis added - arb) While i agree that the "Numbers" are open to interpretation because of your point.. We do need to be careful with semantics here... I consider myself Christian and i am very firm in my faith and belief.... this is for many reasons that i won't expound on here...
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    How did you find CocoonTech?

    Originally found Cocoontech through a link from the Homeseer message boards.
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    Electric "Smart Grids"

    For $10 / month it might be worth it if it was a summer home.. or other remote location that you can't walk out and read.. My Co-Op that i used to purchase power from charged me a meter reading fee if i didn't call in the meter reading at least once every two months. ARB
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    any ideas ?

    Try a motion detector and an outside speaker. On Motion after you have gone to bed.. say: "Smile... you're on candid camera". I think that would work for most pranksters even without an actual camera. Just a thought. Andrew
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    SmartLabs INSTEON-Compatible RemoteLinc Wireless Remote Control Wins Electronic House Product of the

    Are you insensitve enought to imply that cavemen do not have artistic sensibilities? :(
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    [Contest] Summertime 2007 Water and Wear Contest

    WEAR
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    Insteon AccessPoints & RemoteLinc

    I haven't received my accespoints yet.. (ordered 3).. I currently have two signallincs and have some areas of the house where i just have poor reliablity (comms around 70%).. and i've had problems placing my signalincs (i.e... if i put a signalinc in location "A".. the coms on switch "1"...
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    TTS and Homeseer

    Rupp... Does that one-liner change it for all speach from that point on.. or just for that hs.speak command? ... (i.e. .. do you have to change it back if you want the next hs.speak to use the default?) Andrew
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