What can be frustrating is when it starts happening more often, and even though we keep telling ourselves that it won’t happen again... it does. There we are the next morning, hitting that snooze button, only to jump out of bed barely in time to get to work.

Stephen Levitz had such a problem. "I don’t know what it is," Stephen said, "but I just can’t seem to get up on time." And without fail, Stephen would forget something. The coffee pot, the stereo or any number of appliances. So he created a "Leaving the House" macro in ActiveHome.

"With the push of a button on the handy SlimFire Remote, ActiveHome systematically handles all the last minute tasks" Stephen reports. "The macro turns off the house lights, turns down the heater, takes care of the coffee pot, and without me having to remember it all." Stephen even has timers set that turn the lights back on shortly before he arrives home in the evening. And just in case he’s not sure that he got everything, he can go online and double check from work using XRay Vision.

"It’s a lot easier to remember to hit one switch then it is to run around the house trying to make sure you took care of everything before you rush out the door."

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