On October 3, 2012 at 12:18, sofa_king_CI said...
Side note on the hard keypads at least for 'key' areas. Our personal home has an entry that goes into the kitchen or down the hall to the living area. At this entry we have a keypad that is laid out like this
HOME (lights)
AWAY (lights) - press and hold to turn off lights & AV
PANDORA - turns kitchen On to Squeezebox server and starts pandora quickmix
RADIO - Turns on Music server and uses Tune-in radio and selects her radio station
MUTE
VOL - / +
The layout isn't perfect - but every single morning my wife hits the Pandora quick mix button and has music playing without looking at or thinking about anything.
That's a good example I think of how keypads could be customized for common home functions. I also like the ability to get additional functionality via press and hold. As someone told me, the system just sees it as a button and the intelligence is behind the scenes, so a hard button can be used to trigger anything.
