A Decade On Are We Any Closer to the Integrated Smart Home?
10 years ago this week I wrote this post on an imagined ‘X’ protocol that brought disparate systems together in a smart home utopia. However the…
December 2017
Recommended: My Top 15 YouTube Channels from the Past Year
This year felt like the one I joined my kids and watched more ‘TV’ on YouTube than any other platform. So here, in no particular…
Drayton Wiser Smart Heating Controls Review Part 3 – Expanding & Adding Alexa Voice Control
Drayton Wiser Install Expansion In Part 1 we set up the 3 channel controller and room thermostats to replace our conventional versions. That satisfied a number…
Offer: Tomons Wood Tripod Bedside Lamps Bring Scandi Style Home
We’re still enjoying our Tomons Swing Arm Desk Lamp so when a box turned up at the Automated Home with some new Tomons lights we got…
Zigbee Alliance Announces Availability of Dotdot Specification over Thread IP Network
Dotdot is the bridge that allows Zigbee devices to be able to communicate with IP devices on a Thread network. The Zigbee Alliance are hoping it…
Video: UK Loxone Powered Smart Home Case Study
Loxone’s latest video case study takes us on a tour of a cool contemporary smart home in Wendover which has been extensively automated by their…
[Sponsor] 1Home Expands from Voice Control to IoT Connectivity and OEM Partnerships
The Market When you see a true smart home for the first time, you often experience a powerful, lasting ‘wow’ moment. There’s this exciting technology…
UniPi Neuron is Raspberry Pi Based Multi I/O Controller for Smart Home Applications
UniPi technology is a small Czech-based company that produces the modular Neuron PLC. They describe their module as… …a product line of PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)…