Saturday, September 12, 2009

The EiBox as Server

EiBox from the same manufacturer of D'Motion is also very versatile Home Automation device. The latest version is capable of becoming a server. For example, if you have several D'Motions installed in your hour house, you simply need to have them managed other than your pc. The pc simply consumes so much electricity and can be easily hacked if it is constantly connected to the net. EiBox can not connect to the internet but can send sms alerts and can record events as they happened.

The latest version of EiBox has 1.7" colored lcd display and can control up to 5 D'Motions. EiBox has also built-in microsd card for storing logs and has 20 I/O ports.

20I/O ports? That's quite a lot of devices that EiBox can control or accept signals from. The EiBox website can be found here EiBox.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

How to save energy with D'Motion


D'Motion is a device that does a lot of tasks. It can be used to detect burglary in your house and informs you either by just logging the event from your pc, triggering the alarm, turning on the light, and sending email or sms alerts. Whew! D'Motion really has a lot of features that could not be found in its competitor.

Aside from detecting burglary, D'Motion is designed for home automation use. It has a built-in timer that will surely be helpful if you want to save on your energy consumptions. One method of doing this is turning off your Airconditioning System at least 2-3 hrs less that your usual usage...by using D'Motion's timer function you can easily achieve this.