Davis Vantage Pro interface, Weather Now, released

Most of you know that I dabble in software. Well on April 1st (just a coincidence) I released version 2 of my shareware application Weather Now.

Weather Now 2 is a Mac OS X application that talks with a Davis Vantage Pro weather station via the data logger console option. You get an on-screen display of the weather, an option to log the data out for history, and an easy-to-understand AppleScript dictionary so you can pretty much do anything you like with the weather data (for example, using it with Perceptive Automation's Indigo home automation software).

Ambient alerts

Home automation is not just about 'clap on / clap off' bedroom lights. A good home automation system has many aspects that are not noticable by the occupants, things that you don't notice until you move to a new house that doesn't have a system. Occasionally you do need your house to give you information before it does something, and doing that in a smooth way is important to keeping the system 'in the background.'

This post will be about one of the ways my house communicates with me - controlling dimmable lights.

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Automated HVAC

Over the past month and a half I have replaced the Honeywell programmable thermostat that came with the house with a Venstar 1900 programmable thermostat. This is exciting. I don't understand why you are not excited to read more about my thermostat below...

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