Automated Home

• Automated Home 2.0 – #13 Here’s What We’re Planning for Our Loxone Smart Home
  Over the last few months we’ve been working away on the Loxone plans for the new house. Loxone is a BMS (Building Management System) built...
• Review: Is The Zendure SuperTank The Ultimate Portable USB-C PD Battery?
  After headphones I guess my 2nd biggest technology addiction has to be batteries. Tech life depends on electrons and I have an unnatural fear of...
• Staying in the Loxone Smart Show Home – Part 3
  In Part 1 we covered our stay in the Loxone Show Home and in Part 2 we visited the Loxone HQ. In this final part...
• Case Study: Finite Solutions – Crestron Smart Home
  It’s always great to look around a professionally installed UK smart home so here’s a Crestron setup in a beautiful house in Leicester, designed and...
• Automated Home 2.0 – #12 Loxone Will Power Our New Smart Home!
  We’ve covered Loxone smart home products since 2011 and I’ve always looked at the system with an envious eye. So I’m really delighted to announce...
• Automated Home 2.0 – #11 Our Floor Plan
  We’ve already looked at how we arrived at our target room sizes, and the process around the design of the house, so next it’s the...
• Tesla Model 3 UK – The First 3,500 Mile Mega Review
  After more than three years of waiting I picked up my Model 3 from Tesla’s Edinburgh service centre at the end of June and drove...
• TV Lights with New Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box
  The Philips Hue range is one of the most popular DIY smart home lighting systems on the planet. Now they have introduced the new Hue...
• The D-Link Smart Home WiFi Water Leak Sensor
  Here’s an interesting smart home leak detector from D-Link. The DCH-S161 water sensor uses Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz 802.11n/g) so it can operate stand-alone without any...
• Our Apple iPhone 2019 Keynote Cheat Sheet [Updated]
  The talking is done, the demos are over and as usual everything is “incredible”. Here are all the meaty bits from the keynote for your...