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1. Carl Fedrowisch says:

   January 21, 2011 at 4:17 am

   Hi Mark,
   Have you any experience with integrating Android WiFi with home automation?
   Currently I am looking into writing some special WiFi and RF drivers for Android.
   Looks like we are still playing with similar toys!
   Drop me an email so we can catch up.
   Carl

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2. Mark says:

   January 21, 2011 at 2:19 pm

   Hi Carl,

   When I played with Android (version 1.6) the Wifi support sucked and I haven’t been back… so no. I did think developing on Android was pretty easy, though.

   Mark

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3. Adam Gamble says:

   August 12, 2011 at 4:26 pm

   Hi mark!

   I’m a ruby developer looking to get into home automation for personal use. I have a couple of questions.

   If you had it all to do over again, would you still choose insteon or would you use another technology?

   Which “modem” did you use to communicate between the software you wrote and the insteon devices. Would you recommend it?

   I plan to write some custom apps to do things I want around the house.

   Thanks
   Adam

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4. Peter Karasev says:

   August 28, 2011 at 10:19 am

   You could probably whip up something intuitive that doesn’t exist on desktop apps due to the physical sensors. For example, spinning in a chair and streaming accelerometer + magnetic field data to matlab:

   sensor snapshot exported to matlab

   Peter K.

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5. Julie Tupling says:

   January 31, 2012 at 1:33 pm

   Do you have any updates – I am wanting to install a zigbee compliant home automation system – but am not sure who to go with. Centralite was supposed to be coming out with an HA compliant system, but I can’t seem to find any information on it (I believe it is called Azela). Centralite hasn’t updated anything on their JetStream system for years – which does not inspire much confidence in their committment to zigbee.
   Anyway, any updates would be appreciated!
   Thanks, Julie

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   • Mark says:

     January 10, 2013 at 11:38 am

     I don’t really have any updates. If you look at my ‘whither’ post things are just not happening, especially with Zigbee.

     I’m interested in Z-Wave and the new Wifi stuff and Insteon’s dual stuff but haven’t really played with them much.

     Soon, I hope.

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