Automated Home

• Automated Home 2.0 – #44 Loxone Touch Surface
  One of the cool controls we loved using during our weekend staying in the Loxone Show Home in Austria was the ‘Touch Surface’. What Is...
• Converting to a DIY Shelly Smart Home – Part 3 – Digital Hot Water
  In Part 1, friend of Automated Home, MarkB, started to convert his smart home over to using Shelly modules and in Part 2 he created a...
• Our “Unleashed” Apple Event Cheat Sheet
  Here’s the numbers on the new MacBook Pros just announced… MacBook Pro New M1 Pro SoC5nm 10 CPU Cores16 GPU Cores New M1 Max SoC400GB/s...
• Converting to a DIY Shelly Smart Home – Part 2 – A Smarter EV Charger
  In Part 1, friend of Automated Home, MarkB, started to convert his smart home over to using Shelly modules. Now in Part 2 he uses...
• Our iPhone 13, iPad and Apple Watch Series 7 Cheat Sheet
  Tim has gone for a lie down after todays iPhone 13 presentation. So here’s our usual cheat sheet, with most of the details and none...
• Video: Homey Launch Freemium Smart Home Cloud Controller & Homey Bridge
  Athom, Dutch creators of the Homey smart home system have reinvented the controller as an app and Cloud service. The makers say that Homey works...
• Converting to a DIY Shelly Smart Home – Part 1
  Friend of Automated Home, MarkB, covers his latest DIY smart home project as he converts his house to use Shelly modules… There is no shortage...
• Automated Home 2.0 – #43 Low Energy, Airtightness, Budgets, & Compromise
  From the outset we knew we wanted our new home to have lower running costs than the old one. As well as the obvious financial...
• Automated Home 2.0 – #42 Our Kitchen with Parkes Interiors
  Of all the different types of companies we visited during the planning stages for the new house we were in more kitchen showrooms than anything...
• Tesla Model 3 – 24 Month Update
  I wrote my Model 3 Mega Review back in 2019, a few months into ownership, and then followed up on its one year anniversary. Today...