Sensing Status Smart Electronics Jeff started Smart Electronics in 1994. He graduated from the University of Detroit Mercy in 1991 with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He's done home automation research and development for his Master's Thesis, his company, and other projects for about 6 years.
Entertainment systems are an important part of a complete automation solution in any home.
This month, we'll show how to create convenient infrared macros that respond to single infrared commands, X-10 commands, time of day, and your voice. The first thing we'll need to do is create macros to simply manage all of these components. These scenes can be triggered from any other system event such as an X-10 command, a single IR command, or your voice. For the power up sequence, we power up peripherals first, then the amplifier last. On Power down, we power down the amplifier first, then the peripherals in any order.