Serial smart home innovators Marmitek have launched their latest product, the DoorGuard 470… The Marmitek DoorGuard 470 features a colour camera with a 100-degree wide angle lens, always…
We noticed a new product making a bit of a stir in the custom install world so we asked the makers to tell us a…
Here’s an interesting video showing an Ozzy smart home equipped with facial recognition and fingerprint security, voice activated vacuum cleaners and coffee machines, electronic privacy…
Flat screen TV’s are great, except for one thing, as they’ve got thinner over the years they’ve also started to sound worse and worse. Case in point…
Sometimes I really need to step back and take time to be amazed by the Internet. A few days ago I watched a live stream of a…
The guys over at Aukey have sent us over 16 deals for Automated Home readers. These discount codes should work until 15th December 2016. Use the…
CEDIA, joint venture partners of Integrated Systems Europe (6-10 February 2017, RAI Amsterdam), has announced an extensive education programme for ISE 2017, designed to boost…
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…
In our latest My Automated Home feature, Dave McLaughlin takes us through his journey developing his own smart home system. With some DIY upgrades to existing…
Black Friday might be our favourite American import these days. But there are so many tech bargains to chose from it can be hard to see the wood…
Crestron are now shipping their new TSW-560, TSW-760, and TSW-1060 touch screens promising powerful software features (including Sonos integration) along with beautiful hardware with PoE for easy…
We sat down with Energenie’s Business Development Manager, Adam Smith a few weeks ago for a good chat on where the UK smart home company is…
The guys at Indigo Domotics have been working hard for more than a year on their latest release and earlier this week they launched v7. Indigo 7 has…
Aukey sent us their new PB-T10 PowerAll External Battery Charger and with several family members that can run a smartphone flat before lunch time, there were…
So last month I traded in my Range Rover for a Nissan Leaf. No really. After my first 1,000 miles here are some rambling thoughts,…
These days the strangest things have WiFi. So when the AppKettle turned up at the Automated Home we wondered if we really needed a Kettle that…
Northern Ireland startup iTouch Energy have been developing an innovative solar blind for several years now… Our mission is to bring Sustainable Energy and Smart…
Elon Musk took to the stage in the early hours of this morning, UK time, to reveal a new Tesla Powerwall 2 with 14kWh of…
At last there’s a UK HomeKit socket module available. But is it any good? We plug in an Elgato Eve Energy at the Automated Home to…
Very few people consider setting up a projector for their house. We’ve had one on the ceiling of the AV Room in the Automated Home since…