Thanks for all the feedback on the BusinessWeek magazine and video pieces. Seems to be a lot of interest in home automation. I will continue working on the series of stories that I promised. I just realized that BW has archived the video version of the story. It is still available and I have updated the link below. Unfortunately, you have to watch a short video advertisement at the beginning. I don’t like this as you may have gathered from my various stories about advertising.

The story ran in the January 22, 2007 issue of the magazine, pages 82-83. The follow-on filming ended up on BusinessWeek Weekend (carried by ABC-TV) on the Sunday after Christmas.

Not so sure about “master” and I certainly don’t think of my home as a “castle” but now that the cat is out of the bag, I have decided to write a series of stories to share the details about the home automation system in the hope that it will be useful to others. I will include what went into the planning, what technology choices I made, the design choices, and what I have learned. Stay tuned.