Homebridge Links Legacy Home Automation Devices to Apple HomeKit
[UPDATE – Read our HomeBridge tutorial for a guide on how to set it up with SmartThings and Siri] As companies decide wether or not to…
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New LightwaveRF Smart Home App Brings New Features Improved Performance
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…
New Plex Media Player Leaves XBMC Behind
Plex have revealed the new front end for the their media server – ‘Plex Media Player’. The existing ‘Plex Home Theatre’ will still be available but no…
Exclusive Interview: ‘Works with Nest’ at the Centre of The Smart Home
It’s been less than 18 months since the ‘Works with Nest’ program was launched and Nest say they’ve already signed up more than 10,000 developers. Their devices…
Roomie Remote Rebrands as Simple Control – Adds New Features
The app that turns your iPhone or iPad into an amazingly powerful universal controller, Roomie Remote now has a new name, Simple Control. The Simple Control app should roll…
Idratek Makes The IoT a Whole Lot Smarter
Idratek are an amazing home automation company built on decades of research. Their impressive system even powers the UK’s smartest home. If you needed any…
New Android Phone and Tablet Apps for Comfort
Cytech Technology has released version 1.4 of the Android Tablet and Phones apps for their Comfort system. This allows users to control their Comfort integrated Alarm and Automation…
Mac Home Automation: Indigo Touch iOS App v2.0
Indigo Domotics have just released the long awaited v2.0 of Indigo Touch. The iOS app that is the control companion to their popular Mac home automation…
HouseLogix Release Control4 Driver for Honeywell Evohome
Pennsylvania based tech company HouseLogix have released a Control4 driver for the Honeywell evohome system. This driver integrates Honeywell Evohome heating systems into a Control4…
Windows Phone App for the Honeywell Evohome System
Automated Home reader David Horn has just released a free Windows Phone app for the Honeywell evohome heating control system. This app allows European Honeywell Evohome…
Recommended: Infuse Media App Replaces VLC on Our iPhone & iPads
I’ve been searching for a replacement for the VLC app which has has been out of the UK iOS App store again since last year….
Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. The software allows you to track and control devices around your home from a single, mobile-friendly,…
Plex Home Brings User Switching and Parental Controls
Plex have announced their new ‘Home’ update that brings one of the most requested features for the highly regarded media server… I’m happy to announce…
IFTTT Launch New Channel for Honeywell evohome
If This Then That is turning into a really interesting home automation controller in the Cloud. The new IFTTT channel for Honeywell’s evohome smart home heating…
Exclusive: We Talk to Roomie Remote – First Look at New Hardware
With the release of Roomie Remote v3.0 and rumours of some special new hardware we took the opportunity to talk to founder Will Price about the…
Indigo Rule Out HomeKit Integration, For Now
Back in June Apple announced their new home automation framework, HomeKit. Since then home automation hardware and software companies have been delving into the nitty-gritty to…
Crestron Pyng Aims to Transform Home Automation
Crestrons new Pyng app enables the complete setup and control of your home automation system from your iPad. After years of smart home apps being used…
Beecon is Free iBeacon Home Automation App
It’s a year since Apple announced iBeacon (check out our explanation of the technology here). Now the Beecon App aims to combine home automation with…
Video: Nest Developer Program Integrates IFTTT, Jawbone, LIFX, Mercedes & More
Last week Nest acquired Dropcam and this week their march to become a smart home platform to be reconed with continues. The Nest Developer Program has…
Mac Home Automation Software Specialist Rebrands as Indigo Domotics
Perceptive Automation, makers of the highly regarded Mac Home Automation software have a new name. In a move that more closely reflects their product, the company…