I had known about the Irrigation Caddy for a while, but was concerned about what I believed was the lack of a documented and supported API. However, a recent update to this thread gave me the confidence to finally order one. Of course, the first order...
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I've used a first-generation Drobo FS NAS for about 2.5 years now for daily backups of my virtualized servers, Time Machine backups of my two Macs and media streaming to Apple TV devices. I avoided using it for much more than that because file transfers...
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I really enjoyed working with Perceptive Automation's Indigo and successfully integrating the Lutron RadioRA lighting system with it. As I'm sure any home automation geek can attest to, after spending a week with it I wanted to integrate additional...
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A couple of days ago, I discovered Perceptive Automation's excellent Indigo home automation software for the Mac. I installed the evaluation version on my Mac Mini server and disappointingly discovered there was no built-in support for the Lutron RadioRA
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I spent the long holiday weekend on a fun little project I've unimaginatively dubbed SIO2Arduino. Yes, I'm a geek :-)
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For creating a prototype for a wireless Servus PagerLink device, I decided to use an Arduino Uno and Sparkfun's BlueSMiRF Silver bluetooth modem. The process of setting everything up was reasonably painless but there are still a few issues I need to...
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Our newest product, Servus, has a requirement to control hardware pager systems via RS-232. Since Servus is Android tablet-based, it made perfect sense to use the recently introduced Android Open Accessory Development Kit (ADK) to implement this capability...
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