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Try the Engineering department of your university, they are usually very proud of their robots and happy to show them off.

Also there are loads of videos on Youtube.

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It’s on iTunes if you’re interested in being legit. But you have to switch the store to the Swedish one to buy it if you don’t live there. You can switch back after, it’s no big deal.

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Most of the systems out there that will do what your wanting to do are available only through dealers.
Most of them also will require a programmer. It depends on how much you want automated, and what you want to spend.

The best system out there still is from Crestron, its not cheap it will automate everything. Requires a certified Crestron programmer.

Elan makes a pretty good system, again requires a programmer, a little less costly then Crestron and not as cool and as sophisticated, as Crestron.

For some features like lighting Elan and Crestron still will require additional manufactures products. For lighting Lutron is still the best lighting control and both Crestron and Elan can control Lutron lighting control systems. Crestron apparently has there own lighting control system now don’t know how good it really is everyone I know doing hi-end system lighting is still using Lutron lighting.

The new kid on the block is pretty inexpensive and isn’t bad is from control 4. Now it wont do everything but for most people its pretty good. Doesn’t require any real programming so you can just add each piece as you go and looks and operates pretty good.

Very important to purchase from authorized dealer, someone that has been around for a while, and has years of experience doing these system. Go to one dealer that can do the whole system correctly do not try and piece meal it together as you will run into issues and everyone will be pointing fingers at the other. These are elaborate systems and need one dealer to make sure the system comes together professionally.

As for Audio Video system again only buy from a good hi-end dealer they have much better equipment to choose from and have the knowledge to make sure everything works well together, and sounds good in your room.

Good luck, any questions feel free to ask

Kevin
35 years hi-end home audio video specialist.

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I think it is unavoidable that you would have to buy some ‘Smart Home’ hardware.

For example, there is plenty of software that will allow your computer to understand your voice and even activate a command of sorts after it has been told what to do.

However for it to control your lights, there has to be some sort of interface from the PC, or network, that will inform a control system that the lights must be turned off.

Then you need a physical piece of hardware to automatically shut off or turn on the light as commanded.

You may be able to find what we used to call a clapper, which is a light switch that replaces your conventional one and responds to high pitched sounds or clapping of your hands to turn the lighs on/off and vice versa.

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Robots.txt is a text (not html) file you put on your site to tell search robots which pages you would like them not to visit. Robots.txt is by no means mandatory for search engines but generally search engines obey what they are asked not to do.

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Probably so.
You don’t want too many subdomains, because google will consider it spam, and penalize you by not showing you on its front pages.

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You don’t need a robots.txt file at all . . . It’s optional. And since your site is text only, and you want a search engine to find it, you definitely don’t need it. The robots.txt file is to stop search engine crawlers from getting tangled in parts of the site meant only for humans (like the forms for answering questions, or signing up for new accounts, that sort of thing). Also, if you’re on Google and Yahoo you probably don’t need to sign up anywhere else. Have a nice day!

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Hi!

Basically it should look like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /thisplace
User-agent: *
Allow: /theotherplace

But look at the two links below.
For much more help.

Greetings,
/// Micke