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    ecobee unveils the new Smart Si Thermostat 

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    Published on 01-27-2012 06:14 AM  Number of Views: 5737 
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    The new ecobee Smart Si Thermostat


    EDIT: If you are looking for more in-depth information on the Smart Si, check out this ecobee article from an industry expert, Michael Ridler.

    OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE


    For release on Monday, January 23, 2012

    ECOBEE UNVEILS THEIR LATEST PRODUCT AT AHR 2012—THE NEW SMART Si THERMOSTAT—DELIVERING GREAT FEATURES AT A GREAT PRICE

    Toronto, January 23, 2012: ecobee Inc., makers of the award-winning Smart thermostat and Energy Management System unveiled their latest product, the Smart Si thermostat, today at the 2012 AHR Expo in Chicago.
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    Repurposing a TiVo Series 2, Part 2: The build 

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    Published on 01-23-2012 07:36 PM     Number of Views: 28488 
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    Virgin TiVo case

    UPDATE: After a few months in service, it was clear the AMD board and CPU were not cutting it. MicroCenter had a crazy sale on i7 2600K quad-core 3.4GHz processors, so I picked one of those up. I put it on an ASRock H67M-ITX board and added a 220W PSU, the latter requiring more fabrication on the TiVO case. This setup flew and was then used for the review of TVersity on SmallNetBuilder.

    In Part 1 of the Repurposing a TiVo Series 2 set of articles I walked through my plan of repurposing our TiVO Series2 as a home theater PC (HTPC). For those of you coming here on this page and not seeing Part 1, you're probably thinking, "but I just want to install Linux on my TiVo and use it that way". Give up on that thought. The TiVo hardware is proprietary (ie limited or no drivers) and CPU power is very low. I explored this route for quite sometime and eventually gave up. I eventually settled on gutting the TiVo, doing some fabrication to make it in to an HTPC, and then placing it inconspicuously in to our cabinet under the TV. What I found was that was easier said than done. Granted, I did do some things along the way that took a lot of time, but overall this was what I could describe as a moderately difficult project. Let's press on!

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    GE31591GE1 VoIP phone with built-in Skype service Reviewed 

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    Published on 01-18-2012 07:03 PM  Number of Views: 23628 
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    GE31591GE1 VoIP phone with built-in Skype service



    We needed a home phone solution. Like many others, a few years ago we had said goodbye to our landline and all the fees associated with it, using only our cell phones. This worked well for us, however our daughter has entered the pre-teen years and that means lots of phone time. We weren't really sold on a cell phone for her as it could cause undue distractions from school, and realistically that age we didn't find to be responsible enough for one. But the flip side to that being our phones were now getting called and tied up nearly non-stop at night. We'd used Vonage in the past with great success, but at $25.99 a month, the price wasn't as good as we hoped. We also use Skype for video chatting between the kids and their grandparents and noticed Skype had VoIP phones, so we thought we would give them a shot instead, reasoning it may be more economical than Vonage. What we found out after 3 months, was that although adequate, Skype VoIP was neither less expensive nor less problematic.

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    Exciting upcoming reviews 

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    Published on 01-12-2012 11:45 AM  Number of Views: 4682 
    HWG-STe ethernet thermometer

    I've got some exciting reviews coming in the pipeline over the next several weeks and I thought I'd share what they are so you can be on the lookout.

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    Repurposing a TiVo Series 2, Part 1: The dilemna 

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    Published on 01-05-2012 06:35 PM  Number of Views: 15260 
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    TiVo Series 2



    We used to love our TiVo, loved it so much that I thought we would never NOT have a TiVo. But then we got a nice Samsung HD TV with DLNA capabilities and we soon fell out of love with our faithful little TiVo. Although you can, you just don't want to watch a standard-def TiVo on a hi-def TV. I looked in to a new HD TiVo, but at $599 with lifetime service for even the cheapest box, I couldn't convince myself it was worth it. I found I could stream almost any network TV show from PlayOn to the TV via DLNA, although the rewind and fast forward capabilities are missing. The nail in the coffin was Comcast shutting off their analog channels, making the TiVo useless. This 2-part Repurposing a TiVo Series 2 will explore options and conclude with I ultimately did with our TiVo Series2.
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    Changing images on a weather site using an IP camera and a simple bat file 

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    Published on 01-04-2012 06:24 AM  Number of Views: 10106 
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    Foscam FI8904 IP camera


    UPDATE: The latest version of the Foscam firmware, 11.25.2.44, allows you to name the file that is being uploaded to FTP. This process is no longer needed at that point, just upload to your web server directly.

    In the second installment here of my simple bat file series, I wanted to give a small instructable on how I set up "Grandpa's Denver weather page" using existing functionality of the Foscam IP camera and a simple bat file. When looking at this I understand that some may perceive it as more of a convoluted process than a simple one, but here goes.
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    SmallNetBuilder 2012-8/2013 

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    Published on 01-03-2012 08:44 PM     Number of Views: 18033 
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    A list of my articles featured on SmallNetBuilder from 2012-8/2013!
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