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OCR: 2. Home Automation and the Macintosh Would you rather wake up to gentle back kground music from your stereo and the smell of fresh brewed coffee? Ever wish your computer could turn on the printer when you want to print file and then turn it back off when 11 was finished? Would you like your house to look lived in when you 're away on vacation? Wish you could turn on all of the lights in your house with single button when you hear sound in the middle of f the night? Home automation is all about doing these things and much more! 2.1 The X-10 Standard Most people assume that home automation must require major changes to your house, be complicated and be prohibitively expensive While you certainly can spend any amount of money on automation, especially if you take it to the extreme, it doesn't ...