Automated Home

• Staying in the Loxone Smart Show Home – Part 1
  As building continues on the Automated Home 2.0 we’ll soon need to firm up our plans for the electrical first fix, due to get underway...
• Case Study: 8 Luxury Smart Apartments in Henley
  Jack Morgan of Smart Works, installers of home automation and AV systems explains how the Faradite range of products played a major role developing a...
• Automated Home 2.0 – #10 Here’s Our New House Design
  Last time we looked at our building site and work getting underway. Today we’re revealing our design for the new house. Contemporary We started working...
• Bargain: WiFi Power Strip – 3 Smart Sockets with Voice Control for Price of 1
  Here’s an interesting and inexpensive device for your smart home. The Yagala WiFi Power Strip has 3 mains sockets that can each be controlled individually....
• Survey: Newcastle University Study on Smart Home Disappointments
  Last week we were contacted by Davit Marikyan, a research associate and Doctoral Student at Newcastle University (UK). If you’ve ever been disappointed with one...
• Video: Hubitat is SmartThings Alternative with Local Processing & Privacy
  I’ve been enjoying Matt Ferrell’s ‘Undecided’ YouTube channel for a while now and it was a pleasant surprise to see his latest video was on...
• ComfortClick Launches Colibri – the First Z-Wave Hub for Professional Projects
  ComfortClick has launched what it’s billing as the first Z-Wave hub intended for both commercial and residential projects. Colibri enables system integrators and DIYers to...
• Collecting My Tesla Model 3 Today – A Petrol Head’s Journey to the Electric Side
  At 3:30am on 1st April 2016 I was sat up in bed, refreshing a stubbornly unresponsive web page. Five thousand miles west, it was early...
• Frigate is Open Source CCTV People Sensor, MQTT Integration with HomeAssistant
  Frigate is an Open Source CCTV People Sensor  Blake Blackshear’s project on GitHub uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection on RTSP cameras with...
• Video: Control & Automate Your Husqvarna Automower With IFTTT
  Just a quick post for all you Automower owners out there. IFTTT have recently added support for Husqvarna’s range of garden robots… With the IFTTT...