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Entries For December 1998
December/January Theme: Best application for ActiveHome with Hawkeye II

Entry 6: I have used ActiveHome as a motion detector within my home. I no longer wait up for my daughters when they come home from a date on the town with their boy friends. I simply set my ActiveHome system to register motion on the living room area and when motion is detected my stereo and living room lights come on. You should have seen the look on my Eldest daughters face the first time that she tried to sneak in and got the shock of her life.--  Guy     Brown


Entry 10:I couldn't believe it! Periodically over the past few months    unfamiliar sounds would awaken me or my wife in the middle of the night. We would get up to check it out but could never find anything ...until we purchased our ActiveHome kit with motion detector. Imagine our surprise when the lights came on and we located the strange intruder flying about our room! We had a friendly bat that would come to visit from time to time. --Rick    Baldwin


Entry 18 :As I work out of a home office    I am constantly working. Or so my wife would think. I have set up my Activehome and Hawkeye to alert me when my wife is coming down to the office to check up on me. I have a light flash to give me plenty of time to switch from "Quake"(game) to real work. So far so good. I am sure many more useful ideas will come to me as time goes on. --Tom    Cheek


Entry 95 :When are you going to put in a new light switch    my wife yelled as she stumbled into the dark kitchen with an armload of groceries. She'd been bugging me adding a light switch in the kitchen that could be turned on when she came in from the garage for months. "Next week" I answered as I stared at the computer screen on a web surfing mission to find the lowest price on another toy I didn't need.As I hit a new site      the top of the page contained an ad for X10. Now      we'd had X10 devices installed for some time and enjoyed the comfort of remote control lighting and an cool security system to boot. Somehow      I remembered my wife's words "When are you going to put in a new light switch" and I decided to see if X10 had any answers for me.I clicked on the X10 ad and wound up on their home page. I browsed around a while and then      there it was    the Hawkeye Motion Sensor! A light surely must have lit over my head. I placed my order.A few days later    I received and easily installed the Hawkeye    while my wife was making her weekly trip to the grocery store. I went back to the basement    parked myself in front of the computer    and waited. Soon    I heard the garage door open and her car pull in. The kitchen door opened with it's usual creak and I heard my wife yell    "When are you going to...". She stopped. Then there was silence.I've been enjoying that silence for some time now. Its not easy to come by. Now    no more interruptions to my surfing. Thanks X10.-- Greg    Sohl



Entry 202:
ActiveHome saved my life last night.I came home late and I noticed my bedroom light on. I thought I had turned it off before I left. As I walked into the kitchen    a burglar surprised me and told me to put my hands up. Of course    I did. He told me to back up into the living room. My heart skipped a beat on my third step backward. As I took my fourth step    I said to him "I'm surprised you weren't attacked by my Great Dane    Hawkeye." All of a sudden    there was a vicious dog barking behind the burglar    the lights flashed     and a siren sounded. The burglar dropped the jewelry he had taken from my bedroom and ran out the kitchen door as fast as a jack rabbit being chased by a wolf.What happened was your Hawkeye sensor started my "I'm away" program in my computer as I backed into the living room. Thanks to the comprehensive features of and additions to your ActiveHome kit I was safe and the burglar got away with nothing.-- Bruce     Weiner


 

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