I am in the process of finishing my custom home which I prewired myself with Cat6e/Security wire/fire alarm wire/CMR(HDTV complaint)/Speaker, the whole nine yards thruout the entire house.
I am in a quandry on what I should use for the hardware side of things for security/home automation. I have been looking at HAI. What starts getting me confused is that I want to find a software solution also that is easy to use and has a nice GUI, e.g. MainLobby.
Background on what I really would like to accomplish:
1. Security system
2. Home automation (lights, security anything/everything controlled by main cpu and touch screen panels)
3. Whole house Audio
4. Whole house time-shifting TV (Sage TV?) (secondary TV's should use something like MVP or some small appliance, not a full fledged PC)
5. Whole house media - Divx, Xvid, MP3, all music/video formats!
What touch panels for inwall and/or tabletop to use?
The main dilema is I would like to do this with a minimal amount of different pieces of software, e.g. the ability to have MainLobby(or some peice of software) control all functions that I stated above.
I have researched, read and my brain feels like mush, there are so many different ways to do this and I cannot decide on 1 particular way.
This may not be the proper thread and I apoligize if it is not.
I am in a quandry on what I should use for the hardware side of things for security/home automation. I have been looking at HAI. What starts getting me confused is that I want to find a software solution also that is easy to use and has a nice GUI, e.g. MainLobby.
Background on what I really would like to accomplish:
1. Security system
2. Home automation (lights, security anything/everything controlled by main cpu and touch screen panels)
3. Whole house Audio
4. Whole house time-shifting TV (Sage TV?) (secondary TV's should use something like MVP or some small appliance, not a full fledged PC)
5. Whole house media - Divx, Xvid, MP3, all music/video formats!
What touch panels for inwall and/or tabletop to use?
The main dilema is I would like to do this with a minimal amount of different pieces of software, e.g. the ability to have MainLobby(or some peice of software) control all functions that I stated above.
I have researched, read and my brain feels like mush, there are so many different ways to do this and I cannot decide on 1 particular way.
This may not be the proper thread and I apoligize if it is not.