OpenRemote Integrates with Sonos
In the same way as broadcasted television and video playback has changed into streaming, IP-TV and “on-demand” watching whenever you like, wherever you like, also playback of…
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Home Automation Photos: The Automated Home Flickr Group
With the recent Flickr update it’s a good time to remind you about our Automated Home Flickr group. Have a look at all that smart…
OpenTRV: Better Heating and Saving the Planet
OpenTRV project leader Damon Hart-Davis started in electronics when his dad got him interested early on in life. He has dabbled in computing in finance and with…
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…
panStamp Open Wireless Home Automation Platform
panStamp is an open wireless home automation platform forming a complete ecosystem of wireless nodes and IP controllers. This solution mainly consists of panStamps, low-power wireless modules…
Fibaro Z-Wave Home Center 2 Mega Review
The fine folks at Fibaro and Vesternet were kind enough to lend us a sizeable home automation system based around Fibaro’s premium Home Center 2…
Wiring Guide
UPDATE – follow our new Smart Home build here – Automated Home 2.0 Welcome to the Automated Home Wiring Guide. This guide documents the installation…
HP Squeezes 288 Servers into a 4U Rackmount Case!
While this project is aimed at huge data centres, many Automated Home readers have several rackmount servers controlling all aspects of their home automation systems…
Amazon Launch Kindle Fire Tablet – iPad Has Competition at Last
Amazon have just announced their new Kindle ‘Fire’ tablet. So far other tablet computers have been similar in specification to the iPad (or in lots…
iPort Launchport Magnetically Wall Mounts iPad and Provides Inductive Charging
The LaunchPort WallStation provides a home for your iPad 2 on the wall. It securely mounts and charges your iPad 2 using a LaunchPort PowerShuttle. …
Automated Home 15th Anniversary Special #7 – Ant Skelton
2011 sees Automated Home reach the ripe old age of 15. To celebrate our quindecennium (yes, really) we’ve asked some friends of the site to…
New Tech Promises IP Address for Every Light Bulb
So bulbs are this months thing. NXP have announced their new GreenChip IP Smart Lighting Solution which allows users to “monitor, manage and control every…
Freedom – the Open Source Home Automation Software Project
Freedom is a new open source home automation project on Google code. Written in Java it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris and it’s…
GreenWave Z-Wave Energy Display Shows Electricity, Water and Gas Consumption at a Glance
Home automation has acquired a more legitimate mantel in recent years, helping lose its reputation as merely promoting a couch potato lifestyle. Tasked with helping…
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…
My Automated Home : Keyvan Rahimian’s DIY iPad Plus Global Cache Setup
This months “My Automated Home” feature is from Keyvan Rahimian who shows us around his DIY IPad based home automation set-up. The system uses an…
My Automated Home: Delmar Faddens Event Control System (ECS)
This months ‘My Automated Home’ comes from Delmar Fadden, a man that’s no stranger to electronics. As a retired avionics and flight deck engineer he’s…
HAI Launch Wireless Driveway Sensor
When we built the Automated Home in the late 90s we wanted to be able to detect vehicles entering and leaving our driveway. At not…
xAP Tutorial – Setting Up the Open Home Automation Protocol
xAP is an open Home Automation Protocol, created by Automated Home readers almost a decade ago. It allows many disparate systems to talk to each…
My Automated Home : Richard Farthing’s Green Open Source House
In the second of our new “My Automated Home” series, Richard Farthing takes us on a tour of his Green Open Source House. On a…