Because I am an uber nerd I must get one of these...

4-Port Remote Power Switch with Timer~ Web Control

Ohhh the things I could do with this... I'm just thinking now...

I'll do some more researching too to maybe find a wireless one as well...

Ideas anyone? I need some GOOOOOOD excuses to buy this! Help me out!

Its power reboot by ping function automatically reboots any controlled devices if they stop responding to pings!

I found it here for about $75 (with ping reboot) (without ping reboot would be $68)... http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=9258T-PING&cpc=SCH

 

Here are my thoughts...

1) I want both bedrooms and the front room on the network...
2) I want to have a 4'th plug just in case (which is good)
3) I want to have 4 touchscreen interfaces (Probably toughbooks or ipads) around the house (Maybe mounted on the wall, maybe not). For example - 1 in the living room, 1 in each bedroom, 1 in the kitchen
4) With those 4 toughbooks I could also control the music using an apple airport express for the stereo.

The thing is this: it has to work ROCK SOLID because if it doesn't or it flakes out then we can't even turn on our damn lights... lol IT HAS TO WORK!

I love living high tech and complicated... haha. Samantha is cool about it was well! Excited actually...

 

I crunched some numbers and to get 4 laptops with everything it's gonna be about $1600... WAY more than I want to spend... So I'm remapping my idea to only the living room/stereo/lights etc with 1 laptop that isn't mounted to the wall... I can then make the custom URL's to control which lamps I want on and whatnot. I figured I can do that with a Toughbook T5 for about $500... which is about what I wanna spend...

I also thought: why would I want my bedroom lights on the computer... screw it! lol

 

LoL. Not good for my budget (wife will never allow it).

But what is the current limit on each of those ports? How much power can it actually handle?

cool stuff though, let me know if you find out the above.

thanks

 

15A total/ 6A/outlet... which is MORE than enough for lights...

Here is the manual: http://www.arucaelectronics.com/shop/productresources/9258 Manual.pdf

You can set custom URL's to make the outlets do whatever you want...

You can also get the add-on pack to get 8 outlets... The Japanese really kick @$$!

P.S, yes, the wife would KILL me lol

 

Cool, lots of uses. That would be a good system to have running when you are on vacation as to not give burgles the idea that you are not home.

 

Do yourself a favor and start scouring fleaBay for some used Crestron equipment; they've been doing professionally for the last 20 years what you're trying to cobble together here.

Their Prodigy home automation line even has an app for iPwn. and if you saw what their equipment can do with home theater, you would kneel down and weep.

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This spoo is not fresh.

 

hear is a set up for power loss i have a bat bank to hold the the house for 2 hrs at loss but the 75kva cat gen will fire up if my 150kva will not auto start i have a lightning detection system that can track a storm and cut off the grid and power is own all my wireing is shielded cables my house is fully automated as i do not use a light swich just walk in the room i did a lot of it my self i get a kick out of wakeing the bird up by turning on and off things with my cf-29 wile im on the road so ware she can not get to me wiht that frying pan but all u need is to give the house a brain like i did for full automated not just 4 plugs