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Creating a Clever Home?
eKto1 asks: "We've recently purchased an older, dated home which we are in the process of gutting and restructuring. While there are no walls, we are obviously running the standard Cat5, and speaker cable to each and every room, however we would also like to modernize the house even more by making it intelligent, as in 'Smart'. I'd like to install touch screens in the majority of the rooms, to control things such as media (separate audio and video to each wall unit), lighting, temperature, etc. For those of you on Slashdot who have done this, what has your experience been? Are there guides for doing this easily and effectively, without having to sell the farm? Is there a way to allow distributed content to head units while keeping servers down to one or 2 units?"
No, no, no, all other are wrong. The relevant film to view both for creative inspiration and possible pitfalls is this one.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
No, sorry. Those are all cute movies, but THIS is the one to watch.
This has been a test. If this had been an actual Sig, you would have been amused.