Recent content by sbman

The Elk, Omni, etc.. are a great resource. I have had alarm systems in other houses before and had thought they were all completely closed systems, I had no idea there were products like the Elk.  After seeing their offerings and comparing among some of their competitors, Elk seems like a good...

Those are great thoughts. I've been trying to look at as many software systems as possible and I keep finding new ones.  I'll be surprised if I can find something that does 80% of what I want, or even 50%.     My background is in business apps and I have a lot of experience with .Net, so the...

Hi!  I'm new to 'home automation'.  I'm a software engineer and do PC, Web and a little embedded stuff also.   I'm starting on a long term project to automate the home I just purchased. We plan to be there for a long time and I have a lot of things I want to automate!   Choosing technologies...