Neat Commercial Products

EHA is providing links to Commercial Products that I find are kind of neat in what they do in relation to Home Automation.  These are typically stand alone products that provide a simple way to do something complex.


If you have a product to consider,  please send an email to Eclipse Home Automation.


The links here should not be considered a "must buy", but just something to check out.  Buy at your own descression!



  • Home Irrigation Controllers
    • Toro Ecxtra.   This, by itself has a really nice feature.  "Seasonal Adjust".  With that, you can set a "program" to run a percentage of the defined value.  For example,  you program it to water the grass for 10 minutes, but with "seasonal adjust", you can say run it for 50% during the fall, and your grass only gets 5 minutes of water.  No need to change the schedule as the seasons change, just a couple of button pushes to adjust it.  A REALLY neat feature is the "Timepod".  A little USB device.  You set up your schedule on a Windows PC, plug in the TimePod, and send it your schedule.  Then you take the TimePod, and plug it into your Ecxtra and transfer the schedule there.  Not only will your irrigation schedule be backed up on your PC, but you can print out the schedule and have it next to the controller.  The PC SW has some smarts to give you times for watering in your part of the world, but I've not really used that feature.  Check it out at the Toro Ecxtra Webbage. I got one at Home Depot that was 4 zone ready, and you can add more zones.



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