The automation is coming along nicely!

Welcome back, and thanks for keeping tabs on what I'm doing! I hope that I've inspired you to do the same.

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I’m now running Indigo 4 to control all my Insteon devices. My pool light and pump are now controlled via Indigo, and also via a 6 button Switchlinc from SmartLabs – so I can manually turn them on and off from inside.

I’ve played around with a lot of different techniques for controlling my AV stack, from the Global Cache GC-100 to the RedEye iPhone to IR adapter. I think I’ll probably stay with RedEye for now to control the stack.

I did buy the LG BD390 BluRay player to stream video from my Home Server, but I’m really interested in the Boxee device once it comes out later this year. Running Boxee on my MacBook Pro tied to my LG HD LCD TV is pretty darn nice… the BluRay player just shows the movies as files; Boxee shows the actual box covers for them. And Boxee lets me play Pandora and many other online apps through my TV.

Finally, I’m just waiting for my iPad to be delivered on the 12th. I’m looking forward to that becoming my coffee table controller! I purchased the 64MB Wifi version – I figure if I really need to use it via 3G, I can buy a 3G wifi adapter and use my iPhone’s SIM card to drive it. Then my MacBook Pro, my iPhone, and my iPad can all share the bandwidth…