SmartHome Monster House

[Squintz]

Last night April 12, 2004 at 8 pm and 11 pm on the Discovery channel, The show Monster House converted one homeowners house into a "Viking House" from the mid evil times.

One of the installs done during the show was a Doorbell from SmartHome. The doorbell was programmable and the show programmed it to sound like thunder when it was pressed. It is also connected to their phone so that it rings the phone when the doorbell button is pressed.

Watch it again on April 18, 2004 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time
http://dsc.discovery.com/schedule/reminder...81900&x=125&y=7

See pictures from the show here(no pics of the doorbel)
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/monsterh...ing/viking.html

I have e-mail SmartHome to try and figure out what all was used in the setup. I will reply with detail is someone else doesn't beat me to it.

 

[electron]

sounds cool!

 

[smee]

There are numerous ways to get a doorbell press into HomeSeer [1]. Once you get it there, you could do anything you wanted. The clap of thunder could be played over whole-house audio, not just from the doorbell device. Video cameras can be triggered (as was mentioned in a recent thread).

[1]
Relay across doorbell wires into Ocelot, game port, parallel port, etc.
Powerflash X10 module.
Doorbell switch replacing current switch and doorbell and wired directly to Ocelot, game port, parallel port, etc.
Wireless doorbell hack (one of my current projects).
etc.

 

[Squintz]

actually SmartHome sent me a reply with all the devices used in that installation. Here is the link they sent me.

http://www.smarthome.com/MonsterHouse2.html

they also have stuff from the "Mad Scientist House"
http://www.smarthome.com/MonsterHouse1.html

That show is comming on soon

and the "under the see house"
http://www.smarthome.com/MonsterHouse3.html

not sure when its comming on again.

 

[AutomatedOutlet]

Cool, thank's for the info. I just set my PVR to record it!