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Gosh, I've had X-10 stuff in the house since the control software ran on my Radio Shack CoCo, and the interface box hooked to the computer via the tape controller interface. Still using X-10 stuff though their site looks like it was designed by bad infomercial pitchmen. My only issue of late has been the house is too big. Even with signal bridges, I can't reliable hit every controller in the house from everywhere in the house. I have played with some Insteon stuff but haven't had much bettrer luck with it.
Mostly I'm just using light control, automatically turning up lights in the morning, shutting things off at appropriate times, activitating lights from IR sensors, and the like. Pretty convenient to have controls around the house that can shut off all the lights, in case you forget one downstairs when already in bed, or a safety button that just turns on one light in every room when you come home in the middle of the night.
It really isn't hard to put some basic stuff together to see what it can do.
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