@obsolete29 I don't have a lot of home automation stuff in place yet. I don't want the proprietary solutions and haven't wanted to invest the time to piece together something homegrown, mostly because I haven't (at least yet) found enough benefit in the automation to offset the initial effort and ongoing maintenance. But that's just me, I'm sure for plenty of geeks the "neat factor" tips the scales toward making it worth it especially if they already enjoy electronics projects.