ComfortClick has launched what it’s billing as the first Z-Wave hub intended for both commercial and residential projects. Colibri enables system integrators and DIYers to…
I’ve been fascinated by 3D printers for years now and you can buy a really nice quality unit for under £200 these days (check out…
The UK launch of Homey back in the Spring of 2017 was the most read post on Automated Home that year. The idea of a Smart…
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…
This time we talk to Richard Gunther (@richardgunther), host of the HOME: ON Podcast, a show about DIY home control and automation. Hi Richard. Can…
18 months ago we looked at the Brilliant smart home switch. Now the product has just gone on sale in the USA. With Alexa built-in, it…
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…
Smart Home Week is back. The initiative designed to help promote smart home tech is sponsored by brands from across the industry. With nearly half…
We’ve sorted the Black Friday wheat from the chaff as well as adding some of our favourite items from this year, plus a few Amazon Choice…
Smart home voice assistants are being opened up to third party manufactures and KitSound have just released their new ‘Voice One’ smart speaker in collaboration…
The recent launch of the Drayton Wiser from Schneider Electric was the trigger for Automated Home reader Mark Boyle to bite the bullet and install…
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…
Yeti aims to control your entire smart home from a single app on iOS or Android. We asked the team to tell us what it can do… How…
I was binge listening to some back episodes of the Clockwise podcast this week and came across this discussion on the smart home that struck a chord….
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…
Apple’s ad men are at it again, this time with a brand new video that offers a glimpse of that perfect life in a HomeKit powered loft that Pinterest would…
As we mentioned in Part 2, the Automated Home’s base line energy consumption is terrible. There’s no point creating all this energy and then throwing it…
Most people have heard of IFTTT by now, but perhaps not Stringify. Stringify provides a multi-step logic controller in the Cloud and works with more than 500 products…
2016 has been an interesting year, even the complicated world of Smarthome tech has been easier to follow than the politics. Before we start, here’s a special…
Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant. You can use it to control smart home systems like Nest and Philips Hue with your…