Control your house... by APRS?

[Andre Kesteloot]

Mike O'Dell wrote:
> [...] which would explain why the market has never really accepted 
> more complicated systems.
>
> Huh?? "not accepted" ??? there are a lot of people making a lot of money
> installing home automation systems, either in new construction or 
> retrofits during refits.
>
[...]
>
> that argues that a lot of somebodies out there have "accepted it" for 
> some
> definition of that term.
>
This may have been a hasty statement on my part, hence, let me rephrase it:
I do not know anyone who has automated his home to any great extent by 
means of computer programs.
(of course that not not include hackers and hams always ready to try 
something).
I mean "real people"  :-)
André