[quote=FlyerInHi]
I think home automation is a good thing because that will deter burglaries, maybe do away with them entirely.[/quote]
I only wish that ‘open standards’ would be mandated as well as not having ‘tie-in’ with cable companies – giving them access to your privies as well (as well as potentially your daughter).
[quote=FlyerInHi]
I would like a device to record the MAC address of people who walk by my house then gives me a report on how often and when.[/quote]That statement brings back memories – because I worked on such a system, but we monitored MAC addresses from over 1 mile away using a high gain directional antenna. Kind of ‘spook’y stuff. One thing about WiFi, for the most part, whether you get the MAC depends if the person’s client WiFi is trying to make a connection. If the client WiFi is set to only connect to known ‘routers’/’hubs’ – then it will generally be silent until is sees it. Constant querying burns through power on cell phones. However, there is a way to ‘ping’ a client side WiFi – and make it reveal itself in some cases.
