Recently we brought you a story about Chris Lanier, the MCE enthusiast, who went ahead and rigged up his lights so that he could control them from his Media Center via mControl. As you may recall, Chris gave us a primer on what technologies he choose and why.Now that a bit of time has elapsed since his first installment, he has posted part two of his experiment. As with the first part, this installment is once again broken up into easy to read sections, starting off with the installation of his INSTEON kit.
From what Chris writes, the actual install and synchronizing of the devices was fairly straightforward. As he points out, it is imperative that you trip any breakers before you start to work on anything that could send electricity through you, after all, you don't want to end up dead before getting a chance to play with your new toys.
Finally the post gets to the control interface for all of this to work: mControl via MCE. Judging from Chris' experience, setting up and configuring mControl was one of the easier parts of this whole experiment, and it seemed to work without a hitch.
Part one of his experiment can be found here, and it seems like we can expect a part three soon. Great stuff Chris!
