{"id":32,"date":"2002-09-01T00:56:50-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-01T08:56:50+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2002-09-01T00:56:50-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-01T08:56:50+00:00","slug":"turn-me-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/09\/01\/turn-me-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn me&nbsp;on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>You want to turn on the room and not the devices.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"source\">Peter Lucas, Maya Designs Inc. [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/TECH\/ptech\/08\/31\/universal.remote.ap\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n<p>Maya and <acronym title=\"Carnegie Mellon University\">CMU<\/acronym> are working on a truly universal remote control.  It will control not only your TV and stereo, but your lights, heat, home security system, lawn sprinklers, dog door, etc.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;d just like to say, &#8220;Finally!&#8221;  I&#8217;ve looked a bit at home automation <q>solutions<\/q> recently and been mostly unimpressed.  Things don&#8217;t seem to have progressed much since the days when I was learning about programming and technology on my family&#8217;s Commodore 64, except that the new company that had these cool remote light switches is now one of the most hated on the web because of their evil ubiquitous pop-up ads.  (Thank heaven for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/\">Mozilla<\/a>.)  That&#8217;s a period of (eep!) twenty years, for those of you keeping track.<\/p>\n\n<p>To be honest, though, I&#8217;d settle for a plain old universal media remote that can actually <em>replace<\/em> the six I have now (including three that claim some level of universality).  I&#8217;ll wait for the rest.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You want to turn on the room and not the devices.Peter Lucas, Maya Designs Inc. [via CNN] Maya and CMU are working on a truly universal remote control. It will control not only your TV and stereo, but your lights, heat, home security system, lawn sprinklers, dog door, etc. I&#8217;d just like to say, &#8220;Finally!&#8221;&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}