TouchLinc controller reincarnated

Posted in Hardware,Home Automation,Industry News by Ruslan Ulanov on the March 23rd, 2010
TouchLinc #1270

TouchLinc #1270

Remember that touchscreen from a decade ago, called TouchLinc? It was one of the few affordable X10 touchscreen controllers at the time. It had black and white screen and three hardwired connections: power, PC Serial port (for programming) and 4-conductor telephone cable to your powerline interface.

Guess what? Smarthome is releasing an updated wireless version pretty soon (expected in stock 5/18/2010). Yes, of course it will support INSTEON, and to accomplish that you will have to have a SmartLinc (aka 2412N) controller in your set-up.

So, what’s new? (continue reading this article and leave comments here…)

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Control4 My House iPhone app gets an update

Posted in Home Automation,Software by Ruslan Ulanov on the March 15th, 2010

logo-app-control4Control4 has updated their free iPhone app to version 2.4. Control4 My House UI app controls lighting, HVAC, Audio and Video devices including Apple TV and iTunes, IP cameras, etc., through a familiar Control4 interface.

Added new language support including: Afrikaans, Croation, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish.

Various defect fixes including but not limited to:

  • Control4 1.8 version changes.
  • Duplication of thermostats in certain projects.
  • Security keypad issues in certain projects.
  • Portrait to Landscape switching view issues.
  • Album artwork retrieval issues.
  • Improvements in camera movie display.
  • Display of diacritic characters in certain languages.
  • Device Driver support updates (requires getting an updated version of the Control4 project)

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