Who has experience with Home Automation?

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Who has experience with Home Automation? I need help making Automation WIKI page better: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Automation

Currently it is not too informative and I would like to create an introduction article but need some help from you guys who already have done more than me with HA.

What do you say to people who are new to Home Automation? How do you explain it to your friends and family? How to customers that you setup LinuxMCE for?
What are the most important things that need to be said that are LinuxMCE specific?

Which topics need to be addressed in this article?