Top 20 Automated Home Posts of 2009
The end of another year and a rare chance for a tech site like Automated Home to look backwards for a change. It may not…
2009
What Will the Apple Tablet Mean for the Smart Home?
The Apple rumour mill is reaching a tablet-tastic crescendo. If even one tenth of the chatter is correct then we’re on course for an announcement…
New LED Lights for Standard Dimmers
The extraordinary long life and lower power qualities of the new generation of LED bulbs make them a hot topic. However many designs refuse…
Schneider Electric Announces UK C-Bus Wiser Controller Launch
Back in May we reported on the launch of a new CBus home controller from Clipsal. Then last week the UK C-Bus product manager announced…
Retrotouch Launches New Touch & Remote Light Switches and Sockets
Often times the great new tech we cover on Automated Home is ideal for new builds, but not always easy to install in an existing…
Your Digital TV Photoframe Christmas Challenge
Here’s a mini marvel that caught our eye. A 16:9 7″ photoframe that incorporates a digital TV tuner and comes with a remote control all…
Pronto TSU9600 WiFi Remote Controlling Sonos
This week Philips released the next major update of their ProntoEdit Professional software. Amongst the array of new features and fixes is support for uPnP…
Cinemar’s Countdown to Christmas Sale
The MainLobby touchscreen system has been a home automators favourite since 2002. Now Cinemar are discounting it along with their other software and hardware…
Smart Home & Connected Home Convergence: The e-Home Automation Showhouse Dubai
There’s been lots of interest in the e-homeautomation.com smart house we featured from from last weeks Gadget Show. We asked e-Home to give us some details…
Discount Off the Entire Crucial Range
We're delighted to welcome famous memory brand, Crucial to Automated Home. To celebrate we have a discount offer for 5% Off any item in…
Boxee Box Details Plus new UI Design
Last night Boxee unveiled its new UI plus details on its hardware box. They are partnering with D-Link to produce an NVidia ION platform with…
ThinkFlood Launches RedEye Universal Remote Control System for iPhone and iPod touch
The new RedEye dock from ThinkFlood links to your iPhone or iPod Touch via Wi-Fi. This allows you to send IR commands (va the dock)…
New Weather Plugin from Cinemar Provides Hour-by-Hour Forecast
Cinemar have been providing home automation and media management solutions since 2002. They've just announced a new partnership with Intellicast which provides extensive weather data…
Philips Dynalite at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) 2010
The Revolution colour touch screen and Revolution Series 2 user control panel pictured above are just some of the systems Philips Dynalite will showcaseat at…
e-Homeautomation System on the Gadget Show
Last nights Gadget Show on Channel 5 featured a segment on a fabulous Automated Home in Dubai. The system featured lighting, security, voice controlled curtains,…
DF Solutions Announce New Media Server Interface and Distributors
Based in Northern Ireland, DF Solutions Ltd are a manufacturer of high-end Media Servers for the Custom Install market. Having recently updated its software front…
Video Tour of Brilliant Living’s HQ
Brilliant Living is one of the UKs premier Integrators and we’ve featured them before on Automated Home (from the SmartHome Shows of 2007 and 2008). …
Creating UPS Powered Mains Sockets Around Your Home
Here’s one Automated Home readers account of how he powers various systems around his home from special UPS supplied sockets. This allows him to keep…
New 5 Bay Drobo S with eSATA Plus New 8 Bay DroboElite with Multi-Host iSCSI
Data Robotics has launched two new Drobo models today. The 5-bay, eSATA equipped ‘Drobo S’ and the 8-Bay multi-host rack mountable ‘DroboElite’. Both enclosures are…
RUVO MiniCap 7 – Tiny Fanless 1080P HDMI PC
Back in September we brought you a review of the ASRock 330 , an Atom powered NetTop PC running 1080P out to HDMI using XBMC. …