ZigBee Promise Grows
Jeremy Watson’s piece in Scotland on Sunday at the weekend featured an article on Home Automation . Once again ZigBee is mentioned… “Do you wake…
August 2004
Smart Homes For the Do-it-Yourselfer
The Boston Globe have published a piece on Home Automatoin… “Automated security doesn’t have to cost thousands of dollars – Every so often, Michael Brennan…
xAP Desktop Beta 2
James Traynor’s has just released beta v2 of his excellent “xAP Desktop” software… New Features Proxy support for all internet access Much faster xAP processor…
A Brief History of X10
Hometoys has a very interesting history of X10, ok, so it’s exactly what you’d call brief, but then neither was the book who’s title I’m…
A Robot Vacuum that Doesn’t Suck
… and by all accounts that’s the least of it’s problems: “While the Zoombot’s robotic intelligence and floor-covering algorithms aren’t bad, Applica has skimped on…
Another Robo-Vac
Another robot vacuum cleaner enters the market. What’s the matter with these people, haven’t they seen i,Robot yet! 🙂 “SharperImage gets into the market of…
Meedio Announces Availability of Meedio HouseBot for Home Automation
Meedio, LLC today announced the availability of Meedio HouseBot at www.meedio.com. Meedio HouseBot provides control over your lights, appliances, security systems, thermostats, and other devices…
Z-Wave – Review
What is Z-Wave? – Submission by Len Marten – Z-Wave is networking protocol developed by Zensys. It’s not, as some might think, a tangible product,…
Digital Home Buying Guide
Australian PC World Magazine has an online story on Home Automation, including a mention of xAP!! “xAP – Likened by some to UPnP, but with…
New Sky+ 160 Box Offers 80 Hours Storage
From the Digital Spy website… “BSkyB’s new premium product – the ‘Sky+ 160’ – will offer an average of 80 hours storage capacity. It will…
Home CCTV Server
Home CCTV – I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased,…
Slim Device Launch 2 Line Display
“Slim Devices is pleased to announce a major update to Squeezebox. We’ve replaced our venerable 2-line text display with a beautiful new graphic display. Shipping TODAY…
One Million in Six Months
It’s almost six months to the day since we re-launched the Automated Home website. We’ve just passed the ONE MILLION PAGE VIEWS mark in that…