title: Home Automation Library
body: <p>I'm a C# developer looking to get into home automation as a hobby.  I have done a little research, but was wondering if anyone knows of a good .NET library that supports Insteon hardware.  I'd rather use Insteon than X10 due to reliability issues.</p>
  
  <p>My ultimate objective at this point is to have a simple home automation server (maybe lights and climate control) with a secure ASP.NET web application interface.  I'm more interested in actually building it and learning about it rather than finding an existing solution.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any suggestions or comments.</p>
  
  <p>Edit:
  Thanks for the help, everyone.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have experience with <a href="http://www.z-wave.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Z-wave technology</a>?  Seems promising - appears to be higher quality hardware, includes a core library, supports .NET, etc.  <a href="http://www.controlthink.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ControlThink</a> appears to have a pretty good controller and SDK.</p>
  
  <p>Here's an interesting application to consider: <a href="http://www.controlthink.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stall Status: Know Before You Go</a></p>