The nickname 'Domesday' may refer to the Biblical Day of Judgement, or 'doomsday' when Christ will return to judge the living and the dead. Just as there will be no appeal on that day against his decisions, so Domesday Book has the final word - there is no appeal beyond it as evidence of legal title to land. For many centuries Domesday was regarded as the authoritative register regarding rightful possession and was used mainly for that purpose. It was called Domesday by 1180. Before that it was known as the Winchester Roll or King's Roll, and sometimes as the Book of the Treasury.
Video Available here. Nothing too exciting;-) just a dude hanging in wires with RC model Jet engines strapped to his back.
http://www.skywalkerjets.com/
Insteon from Smartlabs (http://www.smartlabsinc.com/) is not affiliated with X10 at all, it is a recent spin off from Smarthome. In fact X10 was designed decades ago and is an anchient technology. Insteon is a fully redesigned protocol that uses both RF and Power Line broadcasting. This redundancy makes the system very reliable. There are several software packages out there that are adding support for the hardware. Girder (http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14 489), pretty much the oldest package around has recently seen a flurry of activity around the Insteon hardware. They are still in beta with that support but hopefully they get it done soon.
I have half my house now running on Insteon and I am very happy with it, response is very snappy and I love my Keypadlinc which allows me to select scenes. A scene for the non-initiated is a group of lights, with dim rate and dim level. So for my movie watching nights all lights go off. Some romantic lighting, sure hit button 2, lights come on slowly to a low brightness level.
Only downside is that Insteon is only being developed by Smartlabs, I think they would do well opening this up for other manufacteres.
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Video Available here. Nothing too exciting ;-) just a dude hanging in wires with RC model Jet engines strapped to his back.
http://www.skywalkerjets.com/
no way! Hell froze over
Insteon from Smartlabs (http://www.smartlabsinc.com/) is not affiliated with X10 at all, it is a recent spin off from Smarthome. In fact X10 was designed decades ago and is an anchient technology. Insteon is a fully redesigned protocol that uses both RF and Power Line broadcasting. This redundancy makes the system very reliable. There are several software packages out there that are adding support for the hardware. Girder (http://www.promixis.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14 489), pretty much the oldest package around has recently seen a flurry of activity around the Insteon hardware. They are still in beta with that support but hopefully they get it done soon.
I have half my house now running on Insteon and I am very happy with it, response is very snappy and I love my Keypadlinc which allows me to select scenes. A scene for the non-initiated is a group of lights, with dim rate and dim level. So for my movie watching nights all lights go off. Some romantic lighting, sure hit button 2, lights come on slowly to a low brightness level.
Only downside is that Insteon is only being developed by Smartlabs, I think they would do well opening this up for other manufacteres.