Agreed on convenience! The way it works is, it's all xbee based (largely because I had a bunch of short-range xbees around when Serious Business decided to get

Agreed on convenience! The way it works is, it's all xbee based (largely because I had a bunch of short-range xbees around when Serious Business decided to get longer range ones). There's a remote that's a picaxe 28 (remember those?), plus a xbee, plus buttons. There's an old netbook that also runs my projector, mostly netflix/youtube. It has a xbee and a few lines of python. There's the light controllers which are just a USB charger, a relay, a picaxe 8, and a xbee. The blinds have a tamiya motor and a L298 instead of the relay. Both the remote and the laptop get to send commands to the other nodes, the remote also turns the projector on and off (by serial port). Nothing to write home about really. It mostly got done because there was an excess of xbees. The "serial protocol" is just sending two characters (0-9 digits) to address the picaxe, and then a one-letter command. Doesn't seem to bother wifi any.