June 2004

Home Golf Sim

For the home with everything? – “As homes are becoming more and more interactive with the addition of Home Cinema Systems and Gym’s we have found…



X10 Irrigation Controller

We’ve just received this from CyberSelect… “Thought your readers might like to know that we now have the Rain8 X10 irrigation controller (and software) available…


Nirvis Says Bye Bye to Slink-e

To All of Our Customers, We are sorry to announce that we will be discontinuing the Slink-e product. We will be accepting orders until June…


xPL Support for Clipsal C-Bus

  “The xPL team are pleased to announce the availability of the xPL C-Gate interface, which allows complete integration between Clipsal’s C-Bus and an xPL…


Polaron – New Standalone 4 Channel Dimmer

A standalone lighting control unit has been launched by Polaron Controls. The Lightlink Modulo4 consists of a four-channel dimmer with control plate and a programmable…


Square Ds Intelligent Home Control

“Square D has launched a new business division that aims to create a new market for affordable home automation and entertainment networking systems. With products…


New Sony RM-AV3100

  Remote Central has just published its review of the new Sony RM-AV3100 touchscreen universal remote.   “…full control of 18 devices, up to 1000 learned signals,…


xAP HomeSeer Plugin Released

James Traynor has just released his xAP Plugin for HomeSeer. What is it?While the features of the plugin are many, simply put, it enables any…



Home Automation to Become Mainstream?

Over the years I’ve seen many points at which Home Automation was reportedly finally breaking into the mainstream. HA has two main markets. The “millionaire”…