# Getting Started with Thinking Home

To use Thinking Home, you can begin with the physical controllers and devices already installed in your home or you can let Thinking Home guide you through the installation of controllers and hardware. In general, you will need to identify devices and controllers, schedule events and responders for the devices, and store the schedule in the controllers or in your Macintosh.

If you store the schedule in the controller, the stored schedule does not need to talk to your computer. You can turn the Macintosh off.

If you store the schedule in the computer and leave the computer on, Thinking Home is good at conducting a schedule 24x7. Thinking Home is a sophisticated monitor that can log everything, send emails, send instant messages, and respond to speech commands from the Macintosh microphone.

## To set up your devices and schedule events:

1. Start Thinking Home software.
2. Choose Gadget Guide from the Window menu.
3. Identify your controllers.
4. Identify your devices.
5. Create timed events.
6. Create responders (triggered events).
7. Store the schedule in the controller or in your Macintosh.

You can do each step above individually by following the links to the detailed procedures. If you prefer, Thinking Home can walk you through a basic setup of controllers and devices, then schedules.