· Chris Hammond
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Windows Home Server up and running on mControl
Get ready for the holiday season with Insteon and X-10 equipment! Learn how to control your Christmas lights from anywhere with mControl Software.
Well it’s now officially the day after Thanksgiving, that means Christmas Lights need to go up over the next few days. With that in mind, and following my blog post from earlier, I decide it was time to get the Insteon and X-10 equipment I do own working together. I ran across the mControl Software on Smarthomeand then decided I would look into it more. I found a trial copy and have that up and running on my Windows Home Server. I must say, it is pretty sweet that I can control the lights from nearly any computer in the world now. Over the next few days I’ll go through and hookup all the hardware I have boxed up currently. It is mostly X-10 controls, but I do have a few Insteon controls as well.
Here’s a screenshot of my test setup running in the Windows Home Server console.