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| Post 1 made on Monday April 20, 2009 at 08:19 |
cmckenney Electronic House Magazine |
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Savant-Controlled Home Is the Apple of Our EyeA Macintosh-based control system and European styling star in this Pacific Northwest stunner.
Stunning is about the only way to describe this 6,500-square-foot home overlooking Portland, Ore. Its three stories combine contemporary elements with swirling soffits, magnificent rock walls and plenty of state-of-the-art elements—from a new kind of home control system to high-res media systems to hidden speakers and Euro styling.
Enter Genesis Home Technologies in Beaverton, Ore., which had worked with the builder before, had just the thing: a home control system called Savant that runs on an Apple Macintosh platform. And yes, that means iPhones can easily operate the system. “We had been beta-testing Savant,” says Jason Gotz of Genesis. “The builder was perceptive and just wanted to be sure it worked.”
Genesis was confident enough in Savant to install two 13-inch wireless touchpanels, two 5-inch in-wall touchpanels and a 40-inch Savant touchpanel built into a coffee table—all of which operate an eight-zone whole-house audio system, video distribution to TVs, heating and ventilation, lighting, security and more. And with a Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, the tabletop screen can double as a computer monitor.
“Every touchpanel is basically an Apple computer,” says Gotz. “They can call up Mac’s Safari web browser, and your whole Apple desktop is available [if your computer is on the network]. You can push a button on the touchscreen to switch it over to desktop. And widgets pull up scores, Yahoo, and stock news,” if you really want to look at that.
For more, check out
[Link: electronichouse.com]
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[Link: electronichouse.com]
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