Installing a Back up Power System
Submission by Nigel Giddings – I am currently building a house in North Kent and have caught the Home Automation bug. The intention is to…
June 2006
Smart Home Open Night
News from Simply Automate on their up-and-coming Smart Home open night… “Open Your Mind to Smart Home Technology Smart Home specialist Simply Automate invites you…
RoboCam 8 Wireless IP CCTV Camera
Here's a new pan/tilt IP CCTV Camera. Available in both wired and wireless form for around £140 and £175 respectively… "With the IP RoboCam8, the…
Car PC or Kitchen PC
Here’s an interesting guide on building a Car PC. This is of interest to Smart Home entusiasts too as many of the requirements that make…
Entry Level RF Dimming System
“GET Plc have released an RF dimming system to complement their extremely popular screwless flatplate electrical accessory range. The range consists of in a ceiling…
ADSL Bonding – How To and Review
Submission by Paul Gale – In the desire to increase my upstream speeds as much as possible I did some research into ADSL bonding or…
Home Automation Newsletter – Volume 1 Issue 1
Birmingham based Smart Home company, Telestial, have just published the first issue of their Home Automation Newsletter… “Welcome to Volume 1 Issue 1 of the…
Philips WiFi Alarm Clock Radio
Wifi alarm clock radios, whatever next…”Philips just announced this new wireless WAK3000 alarm clock as an extension to their Streamium range of connected home media…
New Harmony Media Center Plugin
Here's some news on the additional features that will appear in the new version of the Harmony Windows MCE plugin due next month… "Leading…
UK Launch for CBus Wireless
At last it seems that C-Bus Wireless will be available in the UK very soon. This is especially great news for anyone that needs to…
UK SlingBox – Mini Review
Submission by: Philip Coombes – Here’s one of the first mini-reviews of the UK SlingBox, the device which can stream your TV over your home…
Nabaztag WiFi Rabbit
Nabaztag can move its ears, light up in hundreds of colours, play music and even speak! It will inform you of the weather, air quality,…
Automatically Stop a Bath from Overflowing
Our Forums have a thread running on how to auto-fill a bath. An interesting post from a UK based inventor regarding his device, due later…
Buffalo Wireless Media Player For Intel® Viiv™ Based Pcs
Buffalo have just announced a new wireless Media Player, the LinkTheater PC-P4LWAG. This is one of the first devices that will support Intel® Viiv™ Based…
ExDomus – MCE Home Automation Plugin
The Premium version of the ExDomus plugin for Windows MCE and Windows XP has just been released. Priced at under £30 it allows control of…
Motorola Homesight Wireless Easy Start Kit
“Motorola’s new Homesight Wireless Easy Start kit is under £100 and available now… Stay in touch with the important things in life with our affordable,…
Two-way TCP/IP Control for Windows MCE
Autonomic has just announced the imminent release of their Media Center Edition Control Server… “North Salem – NY – Autonomic Systems, Inc. has announced…
VoSKY Call Centre
We’ve just received this press release from UK Automation… “Smarthome company UK Automation today announced that the award winning VoSKY range of Skype products from…
Cytech Expand into Europe
Some news on the expansion of Cytech Technology into Europe… “Cytech Technology Pte Ltd of Singapore is pleased to make a number of exciting new…