Video: Garageio Controls Your Garage Door From Your Smartphone
Ohio based Alottazs Labs have a new system for home owners that want to operate their electric garage doors from their smartphone. The ‘Garageio’ system consists of…
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Apple iBeacons Explained – Smart Home Occupancy Sensing Solved?
Reliable occupancy sensing has long been the bane of the home automator. A PIR detects if someone moves, but once they sit down to watch…
Roomie Remote: Your iPhone & iPad Smart Home Controller
We’ve been trying out the Roomie Remote app for a while now, comparing it to our dedicated home cinema remote control. Roomie goes way beyond…
New RFID Home Automation Starter Kit and Wrist Band Tag
iAutomate are selling an updated version of their RFID Home Automation kit. Amongst the new offerings is a $500 kit to use with the Mac…
Home Automation Systems and Technology Choices
The term “Home Automation” encompasses many different areas including Lighting, Heating / Aircon (HVAC), Energy Management, Security / CCTV, AV Distribution and Entertainment. There are…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year
The end of another year and time for a customary glance back at the 20 most popular posts from 2010. 5 of our top 20…
Plex Adds Hardware Accelerated H.264 Decoding
While the Plex dev team works hard on the v9 release, they’ve just managed to integrate the Apple Video Decode Acceleration Framework Reference into v8….
Mac Home Automation Server Gets iPhone Control
Perceptive Automation today announced the release of version 4.0 of Indigo, their intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X. New with this…
Mac mini Bargains
Our last video podcast showed what a fantastic media player the Mac mini is when connected to your home cinema. But the new £499 price…
AH0014 – Perceptive Automation
Show AH0014 features an interview with Matt Bendiksen from Perceptive Automation. We talk about their home automation software solution for the Mac – Indigo. Even…
Home Automation Software for the Mac
Home automation products are still a bit thin on the ground for the Mac platform. However Indigo from Perceptive Automation is a quality smart home…
Running Homeseer on a Mac
Submission by: John Lamont – Background – On a PC Since discovering Homeseer as a Home Automation controller for my X10 modules throughout the house,…
KAT5 Mark2 Now Available – New Distribution & Manufacturer
We reported back in April that the KAT5 Mark2 designs were finished and starting production in a new plant in the UK. As of this…
X10 Mac Software Update
Perceptive Automation has updated Indigo, the intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X, to version 1.2, adding support for the PowerLinc USB…