| Introduction |
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| Part 1: introducing Home Automation |
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Chapter 1 Home Automation 101 |
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Doing it the old-fashioned way |
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Benefitting from Home Automation |
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Understanding the Tech Involved in Home Automation |
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The technical state of home automation today |
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Current home networking protocols |
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The future of home automation technology |
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Chapter 2 What You Need to Get Started |
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Happiness Is a Wireless Network |
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Preparing your network for the extra load |
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Being cautious when adding new devices to your network |
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Having the Right Tools for the Job |
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Computers and smartphones and tablets, oh my! |
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Power to get the job done |
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Chapter 3 Determining Your Home Automation Needs (and Wants) |
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Considering Factors Before You Buy |
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Identifying your automation goals |
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Deciding How Much You Want to Automate |
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| Part II: Automating Inside Your Home |
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Chapter 4 Keeping Your Cool or Turning Up the Heat |
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Controlling Your Thermostat from Afar |
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How setting temps remotely benefits you |
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The tech behind the thermostat |
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Introducing the Big Players in the Thermostat Arena |
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Chapter 5 Nice and Tidy Does It! |
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Cleaning Up While You're Away |
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Keeping clean while on the go |
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Automating cleaning chores |
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Understanding how it all works |
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Introducing a Who's Who of the Remote Cleaning World |
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Chapter 6 I'm in the Mood for... Anything: Automated Lighting |
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Lighting Your Life Automatically |
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Reasons for automatic lighting |
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Illuminating the Kings of Automatic Lighting |
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Chapter 7 Safe, Sound, and Hunkered Down |
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Establishing Security in the Automatic Age |
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Keeping your eyes homeward |
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Staking Out the Wardens of Home Security |
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Chapter 8 Home, Home on the Automatic Range: The Automated Kitchen |
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Cooking Without Being in the Kitchen, and Other Kitchen Awesomeness |
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Checking Out the Top Home Automation Chefs |
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Chapter 9 Monitoring Water Use and Detecting Leaks |
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Watching Your Water Usage |
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The why's of monitoring water |
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The how's of monitoring water |
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Assessing the Water Monitoring Mavens |
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Chapter 10 Smart Home Entertainment |
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Modernizing Home Entertainment |
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Smart home entertainment technology |
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Introducing the Smart Home Entertainment Gurus |
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| Part III: Automating Outside Your Home |
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Chapter 11 Checking the Weather |
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Keeping Tabs on the Weather |
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Checking the Weather Automatically |
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Chapter 12 Your Grandfather's Dream, Your Reality: Automating Lawn Care |
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Caring for Your Lawn Doesn't Have to Break Your Back |
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Reasons for automating lawn care |
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Lawn care tasks that you can automate |
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Getting to Know the Top Companies in Lawn Automation |
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Robotic mowers around the world |
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Watering Your Lawn Automatically |
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| Part IV: Taking Command of Your Home Automation Systems |
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Chapter 13 Working with Mobile Devices and Computers |
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Discovering Devices Commonly Used for Smart Home Automation |
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Chapter 14 Controlling Your Home from One Platform |
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Examining the Lack of Unity |
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Recognizing the "higgledy-piggledy" state of home automation |
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Seeing ways to achieve platform unity |
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Choosing the Single-Platform Path |
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Opting for Multi-Protocol Solutions |
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Link(sys)ing with Staples Connect |
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| Part V: The Part of Tens |
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Chapter 15 Ten Easy Ways to Begin Automating Your Home |
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Quirky+GE Pivot Power Genius |
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Leviton Dimming Plug-In Lamp Module |
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Chapter 16 Ten Great Websites for Home Automation |
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Chapter 17 Ten Other Options for Automating Your Life |
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Cleaning Your Home's Gutters |
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Making a Robot Part of Your Family |
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Feeding Pets While You're Away |
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A kitty toilet? Why, yes, indeed! |
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Cleaning Your Pool the Robotic Way |
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Waking Up to a Fresh Cup of Joe |
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Starting Your Vehicle Remotely |
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Flushing Your Troubles Away Automatically |
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Pulling the Shades from Across the Room |
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Controlling Your Home's Humidity |
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| Index |
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