Open Energy Monitor Home Automation Hub with MQTT, nodeRED, OpenHAB & LightwaveRF
At the Fully Charged Live event at Silverstone earlier this month we stopped by the Open Energy Monitor stand for a chat with Glyn Hudson…
At the Fully Charged Live event at Silverstone earlier this month we stopped by the Open Energy Monitor stand for a chat with Glyn Hudson…
To help celebrate our 20th Anniversary we have a mountain of great prizes to give away thanks to some very generous support from our favourite smart home companies….
UK Smart Home specialists LightwaveRF are launching a new app along with their new website. The new app allows you to control multiple sites, not…
Smart Home tech specialist LightwaveRF have revealed a variety of new accessories to complement their existing products. These aren’t new RF units, but rather a range of accessories to blend in…
Wireless smart home tech manufacturer LightwaveRF has added a range of four new door chimes to their existing lighting, heating and power control products. The…
The LightwaveRF system from JSJS Designs offers a wide variety of good looking, affordable home automation modules that can easily be retro fitted in any…
JSJS Designs have announced a new free iOS App for their LightwaveRF Home Automation system. For the first time the ‘all-new’ app for the iPhone…
JSJS Designs have announced a new free Android App for their LightwaveRF Home Automation system. There will be an ‘all-new’ Apple iOS app for your…
Home automation hacker Charlie Cole has employed a Raspberry Pi to create a voice interface to his LightwaveRF devices. A virtual butler is born and ‘Jeeves’ controls lights,…
The guys at JSJS Designs have just released this new 17 minute video. It’s a great introduction to the LightwaveRF home automation range covering lighting,…
Cytech have added yet another system to their list of devices that can be controlled from their Comfort security and home automation panel. The new setup now…
RFXCOM have announced their new USB 433.92MHz home automation transceiver – the RFXtrx433. This device has replaced the USB receiver and USB transmitter and has…
It’s not often that a new Home Automation system comes along that can genuinely challenge the elderly, but universally established X10 protocol. But LightwaveRF looks…
JSJS Designs based in Birmingham in the UK have produced a range of wireless home automation products under the LightwaveRF brand. Particularly suited to the…
LightwaveRF have introduced the new L82 Mini Relay which promises to bring even more flexibility, control and additional smart features to the their range. The…
2018 was an interesting year for us. We moved out of the Automated Home in October and our End of an Era announcement was your…
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…
We have an Echo and Echo Dot in the Automated Home so when Currys asked us if we wanted to try the new UK Google Home we were keen…
Last week saw the introduction of a brand new smart home hub to the UK market Dutch start up Athom successfully launched Homey on Kickstarter…
“Log door openings to a spreadsheet”. And you thought you were a geek. Samsungs SmartThings system has been available in the UK for several months now…