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Welcome to my site. It's not just Home Theater, it's not just Home Automation, it's Home Theater AND automation.

I'll show you how I used a single PC, CQC Home Automation Software, SageTV media software and extenders, VladStudio.com art, and some random bits/bytes to build out a comprehensive but easy to use and visually pleasing control system.

 
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Home Automation Documents & Videos

I've got a few documents & videos that may help you come up to speed on all this stuff:

NOTE: To watch the videos, you must install the www.gotomeeting.com/codec otherwise they won't play correctly.

Videos
CQC-Elk-101: Intro to HA video recording(90MB). This video will help you understand how to setup CQC & The Elk to do HA.
CQC-201/202: Interface Editing/VariablesDriver/AutomatedEvents video recording.(109MB). This will show you how to build interfaces for manual control, and triggers for automated/back-end control. By 'back-end' control, it's stuff like:

  • Automatically turn lights on/off if you open doors.
  • Automatically turn off the stereo if you turn off the TV. 
  • When you press pause on your remote control, how can you setup the system so that it figures out what you're using (DVD player, Media Extender, iTunes) and route the pause command to the right target.



PDFs
Intro to HA pdf file used in the CQC-Elk-101 webinar.
Interface Editing/etc PDF file used in the CQC-201/202 webinar.
Intro to Security Systems. This has nothing to do with Home Automation, I just wrote it up for my neighbors as I thought it was interesting stuff.