Indeed, there have been rare cases of both composers and builders. Thus like many analogies there's always edge cases. It doesn't change the problem that a great number of devices or efforts targeted toward automation are often created by folks with very little in common (lifestyle or sense) with the intended audience.
It'll be good to see what develops with more devices on the market at lower-than-previous price points. There's likely to be a lot of stunted efforts, but then automation has seen more than it's share of that already.
Look into Lutron's RadioRa2 dimmers. No analog position dimmers, but those are more problematic than you might first guess. Bump into them and they lose their setting. Or the slider rheostat in there craps out over time. To say nothing of the power wasted on that kind of circuit.
RA2 dimmers have a dimmer on the side, you set it to a value and the switch remembers it. Press the button again in the future and it'll come on to that level. Want 100% light, just double-tap (without that changing the remembered dim).
Or send a command to it via an IP/RF bridge and set it to whatever you like (along with being able to see how it's currently set; 2-way). Without the speed and reliability problems of z-wave.
That and their IP bridge has a time clock and you set it's location for sunrise/sunset related programming. I've got a bunch of stuff triggered at various intervals tied to them. Bring the lights up to 25% a half-hour before, then up to 80% a half-hour after, down to 25% again in another 30 and then off completely. Brings the lights up without being too bright, adds more as the sun sets, dims as the evening winds down and then off. All without intervention. Home, Away and Alternate modes too. I program Alternate for holiday lighting like Halloween & Christmas.
There are ambient light level sensors, but to get sophisticated conditional programming you'd want to add something 3rd party (which you no doubt sound capable of doing). The front porch light has a motion sensor that's smart enough to realize it doesn't need to turn on the lights when there's enough ambient light. But on a very overcast day, it will.
Software dimmers are capable of doing some clever stuff. Like setting the low threshold on the dimmer so you don't under-drive LED lighting. An LED light might only need dimming down to 30%. Dropping lower than that causes them to blink or worse. RA2 dimmers can do this.
Sure, they're pricey, but good, fast, cheap... pick two... still applies.
Because not all lighting is coupled to motion detection. Some of it is just vanity, lighting up the facade of the house. Some of it is safety, for those in the house and walking along outside.
It's annoying to just be walking along the sidewalk and have someone's overzealous motion sensor light up their house like a damned Christmas tree.
Or maybe I just want to walk out into my backyard at night and not have all the lights come on (emptying trash in PJs, or using the hot tub in less). But once we've gone to bed at night, and the alarm is set, then have it light up like the FACE OF THE SUN if someone's skulking around the windows.
The very hard part of the equation is making a system capable of being smart when necessary, but dumb otherwise. Learn from activities and user input and don't keep plodding along when told otherwise. As in, learn that people are (legitimately) present and the activity levels might require adjusting the scheduled automation tasks. Recognize there's a party and don't trip the outside floodlights. Or note that nobody's been around and it'd probably be a good idea to go into 'away mode' (but get out of it when people return).
The biggest problem with lifestyle devices is they're often engineered and programmed by people that don't have lives. At least not ones that bear any semblance to those of the customer. This is like asking deaf people to make violins. No insult intended toward the hearing impaired, of course. Sure, it might look, smell, taste and feel right... but the sound.... well it might not be what the customer actually needs.
Not that I disagree with you, but thus far resisting the NSA has meant tanking the company. Just how will you be a loyal customer when the company's shuttered?
Yet perhaps you ignore user expectations. Why make them switch inputs and the like when they want to watch local broadcast TV? The in-laws immediately set up a 'season pass' to record Jeopardy, if just to time-shift it for 20 minutes or so. And this without having to futz around changing TV inputs (not as trivial a task as you might think for some older folks). To jump from the streamer, to antenna, etc, why make them do this when they can use a DVR with streaming and a built-in tuner instead?
Fixating on making things 'simple' doesn't always work out the best. Especially when you set yourself up to become tech support for the monstrosity you've inflicted on them...
Least troublesome would be a Tivo. We gave the grandparents one 10 years ago and they took to it with absolutely no trouble at all. Including using Netflix for viewing. The menu structure just never gets them lost. And the remote it likewise straightforward to use. Sure, there's a monthly subscription for it, but the convenience and lack of support calls back to me is totally worth it (for both me and them).
They use an iPad for just about everything else. They could use that for Netflix viewing but prefer the TV. And since there's no decent way to do airplay to TV without an apple TV (which is shit otherwise) that's fine. They have a Mac Mini connected to the TV but don't make much use of it. It's only there at this point to act as a bridge for the iPad to print through.
No doubt the reason the child is interested is because you're spending too much time on it while in the child's company. Put it away and do real-world things with your child. There will be PLENTY of time later in life to be chained to a screen, don't waste their precious developmental time on pixels.
Versus the pollution from the fossil fuels being burned to make electricity. The panels incur their cost once. A gas/oil/coal power plant continues making pollution constantly.
I'd imagine this might have to do with maintaining the roof's integrity more than dish placement. A poorly installed dish on the roof can cause leaks that lead to really expensive repairs.
Your grasp of parenting is apparently as weak as your understanding of how a large organization works. And if that child goes to work in the typical business environment they're just as likely to have their work network usage just as closely monitored.
The FBI isn't just "one thing". It's a collection of the people that work for it. As a result you're going to find just as many, if not more, variations of skills and incompetence.
OR != ER. Operating room versus Emergency Room. A compound fracture (like one that breaks the skin) is more than likely to require surgical attention, and that typically requires an OR. Simpler breaks are often set in the ER.
Here in the US basic first aid programs, often part of the US Boy Scouts programs, covers diagnosing the severity of injuries, including simple vs compound breaks.
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When it's a sole-use device, sure, people are going to bail. Combine it with a watch with a few features THEN do the trial again.
Don't forget rapist too, or so he's been accused.
Totally agree. It's just mindless and lazy arrogance to do something this incredibly irresponsible.
Sadly, law enforcement doesn't even seem capable of keeping random psychotic individuals from being EMPLOYED AS ONE OF THEM.
Assuming you actually use something remotely resembling decent grammar?
But, no, you're entirely wrong. A two year old is still quite a ways away from being able to have a 'rational' conversation for something like this.
Indeed, there have been rare cases of both composers and builders. Thus like many analogies there's always edge cases. It doesn't change the problem that a great number of devices or efforts targeted toward automation are often created by folks with very little in common (lifestyle or sense) with the intended audience.
It'll be good to see what develops with more devices on the market at lower-than-previous price points. There's likely to be a lot of stunted efforts, but then automation has seen more than it's share of that already.
Look into Lutron's RadioRa2 dimmers. No analog position dimmers, but those are more problematic than you might first guess. Bump into them and they lose their setting. Or the slider rheostat in there craps out over time. To say nothing of the power wasted on that kind of circuit.
RA2 dimmers have a dimmer on the side, you set it to a value and the switch remembers it. Press the button again in the future and it'll come on to that level. Want 100% light, just double-tap (without that changing the remembered dim).
Or send a command to it via an IP/RF bridge and set it to whatever you like (along with being able to see how it's currently set; 2-way). Without the speed and reliability problems of z-wave.
That and their IP bridge has a time clock and you set it's location for sunrise/sunset related programming. I've got a bunch of stuff triggered at various intervals tied to them. Bring the lights up to 25% a half-hour before, then up to 80% a half-hour after, down to 25% again in another 30 and then off completely. Brings the lights up without being too bright, adds more as the sun sets, dims as the evening winds down and then off. All without intervention. Home, Away and Alternate modes too. I program Alternate for holiday lighting like Halloween & Christmas.
There are ambient light level sensors, but to get sophisticated conditional programming you'd want to add something 3rd party (which you no doubt sound capable of doing). The front porch light has a motion sensor that's smart enough to realize it doesn't need to turn on the lights when there's enough ambient light. But on a very overcast day, it will.
Software dimmers are capable of doing some clever stuff. Like setting the low threshold on the dimmer so you don't under-drive LED lighting. An LED light might only need dimming down to 30%. Dropping lower than that causes them to blink or worse. RA2 dimmers can do this.
Sure, they're pricey, but good, fast, cheap... pick two... still applies.
Because not all lighting is coupled to motion detection. Some of it is just vanity, lighting up the facade of the house. Some of it is safety, for those in the house and walking along outside.
It's annoying to just be walking along the sidewalk and have someone's overzealous motion sensor light up their house like a damned Christmas tree.
Or maybe I just want to walk out into my backyard at night and not have all the lights come on (emptying trash in PJs, or using the hot tub in less). But once we've gone to bed at night, and the alarm is set, then have it light up like the FACE OF THE SUN if someone's skulking around the windows.
The very hard part of the equation is making a system capable of being smart when necessary, but dumb otherwise. Learn from activities and user input and don't keep plodding along when told otherwise. As in, learn that people are (legitimately) present and the activity levels might require adjusting the scheduled automation tasks. Recognize there's a party and don't trip the outside floodlights. Or note that nobody's been around and it'd probably be a good idea to go into 'away mode' (but get out of it when people return).
The biggest problem with lifestyle devices is they're often engineered and programmed by people that don't have lives. At least not ones that bear any semblance to those of the customer. This is like asking deaf people to make violins. No insult intended toward the hearing impaired, of course. Sure, it might look, smell, taste and feel right... but the sound.... well it might not be what the customer actually needs.
No one piece of evidence alone is going to convict.
This is one more step in pushing their own schemes.
Sure, on the face of it there's benefit from being able to avoid being tracked by 3rd parties.
But what do you want to be you'll be unable to change your device's iBeacon ID in the same manner?
It's fair because you and the others in the area elected people to set it up.
This. Makes a fine replacement for the aging D3 the wife's been using. Shame their vehicle dock offering ABSOLUTELY SUCKS.
Bravo, spot-on.
Not that I disagree with you, but thus far resisting the NSA has meant tanking the company. Just how will you be a loyal customer when the company's shuttered?
If they're hanging around Beiber and not clearly running away from him then just how innocent are they?
Yet perhaps you ignore user expectations. Why make them switch inputs and the like when they want to watch local broadcast TV? The in-laws immediately set up a 'season pass' to record Jeopardy, if just to time-shift it for 20 minutes or so. And this without having to futz around changing TV inputs (not as trivial a task as you might think for some older folks). To jump from the streamer, to antenna, etc, why make them do this when they can use a DVR with streaming and a built-in tuner instead?
Fixating on making things 'simple' doesn't always work out the best. Especially when you set yourself up to become tech support for the monstrosity you've inflicted on them...
Least troublesome would be a Tivo. We gave the grandparents one 10 years ago and they took to it with absolutely no trouble at all. Including using Netflix for viewing. The menu structure just never gets them lost. And the remote it likewise straightforward to use. Sure, there's a monthly subscription for it, but the convenience and lack of support calls back to me is totally worth it (for both me and them).
They use an iPad for just about everything else. They could use that for Netflix viewing but prefer the TV. And since there's no decent way to do airplay to TV without an apple TV (which is shit otherwise) that's fine. They have a Mac Mini connected to the TV but don't make much use of it. It's only there at this point to act as a bridge for the iPad to print through.
+1, mod up.
No doubt the reason the child is interested is because you're spending too much time on it while in the child's company. Put it away and do real-world things with your child. There will be PLENTY of time later in life to be chained to a screen, don't waste their precious developmental time on pixels.
Which stupidly ignores the fuel that's NOT BEING BURNED as a result of the power generated by the panels.
Versus the pollution from the fossil fuels being burned to make electricity. The panels incur their cost once. A gas/oil/coal power plant continues making pollution constantly.
I'd imagine this might have to do with maintaining the roof's integrity more than dish placement. A poorly installed dish on the roof can cause leaks that lead to really expensive repairs.
Your grasp of parenting is apparently as weak as your understanding of how a large organization works. And if that child goes to work in the typical business environment they're just as likely to have their work network usage just as closely monitored.
The FBI isn't just "one thing". It's a collection of the people that work for it. As a result you're going to find just as many, if not more, variations of skills and incompetence.
What created the problems was Apple's asinine censorship policies.
Did they learn nothing in the past decade? View exploits were a fun way to get the Newton to do some tricks too.
OR != ER. Operating room versus Emergency Room. A compound fracture (like one that breaks the skin) is more than likely to require surgical attention, and that typically requires an OR. Simpler breaks are often set in the ER.
Here in the US basic first aid programs, often part of the US Boy Scouts programs, covers diagnosing the severity of injuries, including simple vs compound breaks.