Smart Homes For Dummies |
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| Title: | Smart Homes For Dummies |
| Author: | Danny Briere
Pat Hurley |
| Publisher: | For Dummies |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 23 July, 2007 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0470165677 / 9780470165676 |
| List Price: | $21.99 |
| You Save: | $7.04 |
| Amazon Price: | $14.95 |
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Product Description
Do you long to listen to your favorite CD from anywhere in your house? To set up a wireless network so you can access the Internet in any room? To install an iron-clad security system? To fire up the coffee pot while you’re still asleep and wake up with automated lighting? Smart home technology can help you do just that! Smart Homes For Dummies, Third Edition, shows you how easy it can be to create and live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home—without breaking your bank account. With this user-friendly guide, you’ll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control that will help you make life more enjoyable and comfortable for your entire family. We help you plan for things such as flat-screen TVs, intercom systems, whole-home audio systems, gaming consoles, and satellite systems. We talk about your wiring (and wireless) options and introduce you to the latest technologies, such as VoIP and Bluetooth. You’ll see how to: - Build your home network on a budget
- Turn your home into an entertainment center
- Access the Internet from any room
- Get VoIP on your phone network
- Boost in-home wireless and cell phone signals
- Connect your computer to your TV
- Secure your home and property
- Increase your home’s resale value
- Avoid common networking pitfalls
- And much, much more
Complete with a resource list for more information and neat toys of the future, Smart Homes For Dummies is your plain-English, twenty-first century guide to a fully wired home!
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Customer Reviews:
• Where's The Beef
12 June, 2008
A good introductory book for understanding the options but not enough examples of how to use the technology in real life.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I'm Not That Dumb After All
11 February, 2010
This is the first 'dummies' book I've ever read. You can read the book from "start to finish" (as I did) or jump around the chapters that may interest you. While it did provide some interesting information which certainly helped me, it also provided page after page of pointless repetition. I'm wondering who the publishers think their market might be, it's not so much for 'dummies' but more for the 'utterly stupid' who probably wouldn't be reading the book in the first place.
My advice is just Google something like "Cabling for Smart Homes" or "Wiring for Smart homes" and you'll get all the info you need without having to suffer wading through a lot of the tripe found in this publication.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Not As Informative As I Hoped It Would Be
28 September, 2008
I assumed this book would be about home automation, but it only briefly touches on that. It is mostly about wiring of distributed audio and video, which I didn't find very interesting.
The book does contain some interesting and useful information, but it could probably all be squeezed into about 30 pages.
The reader is directed to an an accompanying web site for up-to-date information, but the web site was last updated three years before the latest edition of the book was published.
- Amazon Customer Review
• I'm Not Sure I Know What I Expected...
12 September, 2009
...but I didn't get much out of this book. Much of what was in it - I already do (for example, I have a home network with a central "server computer"). I was hoping it would cover more about automating lighting and compare different methods/systems...
Anyway, it also lacks much of the humor I normally find in "dummies" books - so it was pretty dry reading.
Bottom line - not very impressed.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Brilliant Introduction To Home Electronics Industry
20 February, 2010
Some readers commented that there is not actually enough information on "how to actually do something" or "home automation". That's true. There could be more of this stuff, but if they were, the book would probably not be for "dummies", any more. Not meaning that stuff is too technical, but it would require a lot more pages, and the Dummies series probably doesn't allow this. There are whole courses on those subjects from CEDIA.
Anyhow, I find that the book is a treasure for information on what is available today to ensure you are up to date with the latest technology (at the time of writing). It enabled me to update my home system in ways I did not think possible. I thought I was doing well, until I read the book. One really good thing I like about the book, too, is that it mentions companies and products that are available for the area of discussion. Something as seemingly simple as introducing me to baluns, is a point worth noting. I always thought I'd have to get really long line level cables for long runs. Also, I thought a "zone" was simply somewhere where I've run speaker wire from my receiver, where it would have to play the one source that was playing. I didn't know there were specially built multi-zone/multi-source amps out there and that Russound and Niles Audio were even companies. These are simple examples of how you can learn new stuff by reading the book. Of course, there are so may others. I have done so many upgrades since reading this book. e.g. my Roku Soundbridge (never knew it existed until reading the book), my D-Link DMA (which is now my most used piece of equipment, outside of the tv and receiver), my Russound whole home audio upgrade. That's just to name three.
Bottom line, if you want to increase your home electronics/automation knowledge, you cannot go wrong with this book. You will not become a CEDIA ESC after reading, but you'll be on your way!
- Amazon Customer Review
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