April 2002

UK Home Automation Wiring Guide

The downloadable version of the on-line Automated Home UK Wiring Guide. Save yourself sometime by downloading this and extracting to a folder on your hard…


Hot Deals On X10 Micromodules

Comfort have added the AWM2 A10 Appliance Module (16A retro-fittable X10 Module) to their “Hot Deals” page. The price has been reduced from £59+VAT to…


ProntoEdit V4

News from Remote Central on the release of the new ProntoEdit Version 4. “Today is a big day for Pronto owners! Philips has just released…


Irrigation

Ian Bird has just added some great info and pictures to his site about his irrigation system… “I built a small relay board especially for…


HomeVoice Supports Windows NT and XP

News from Paul Gale on the 32 bit version of HomeVoice – “The guys at Applied Future Technology have finally made available a pre-release version of…


Links

  The links page has had a tidy up. Broken links are removed and a few others have been updated to new URLs. There are…


Atlas CAT5 Cable Tester – Review

My good mate Darren has the “Daddy” of all Cable Testers. It’s a Fluke something-or-other and it’s amazing! It can ping IPs, generate network traffic,…


X10 Micro Module (AWM2) – Review

  The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 is…


ATI PC/USB RF Remote

"ATI Technologies Inc. today announced the new REMOTE WONDER™. Available through ATI's website .99, the radio-frequency (RF) remote control provides access to all the multimedia…



UltraMote Supports HP Jornada

Just received this info from UltraMote on additional support for their PocketPC IR Remote… “Hi, Mark, was looking at the site and wanted to update…


Microsoft – X10

“Microsoft is nearing its goal to have all manner of home equipment join a network, with a hardware and software developer kit due by the…


Gordon Solutions Added to Links

Added Gordon Solutions to the LINKS page… “Gordon Solutions are a systems integrator with domestic and industrial experience spanning 15 years. We provide a total…


Return of the FAQ

After a brief spell lost in Cyberspace, Stuart Grimshaw’s UKHA FAQ has returned! 🙂 “Don’t forget that this is an FAQ-o-Matic, which means you can…


Broadband gets Britain Buzzing

“Britain is catching the broadband bug. The start of self-install broadband and cuts in the price of fast net access via phone lines seem to…


London Meet 2002

Here are the arrangements for the 2nd Annual UKHA London meeting. Graham Howe has organised the upstairs room in the Old Kings Head pub as…


Talking Fridges

Daniel James spotted this one on the BBC site… “Talking fridges and intelligent boilers could become standard household appliances as the UK Government announces a…


Comfigurator Released

We reported on 28th February that the new Comfort configuration software (“Comfigurator”) was almost ready for release. Well today it has been. “Dear All, the…


Video Formats Explained

Keith Doxey has added an excellent info page to his Kat5 website explaining the difference between the various video formats (Composite, S-Video, RGB, Component etc)….


Fuji Webpads Arrive in London

The bulk delivery of Fuji webpads by Gareth Cook for members of the UKHA_D mailing list has finally arrived in the UK… Gareth and helpers…