Review: Foobot is Your Smart Home Air Quality Monitor
There’s a lot of talk in the media these days about air quality. But who really has a clue how polluted the air is in…
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Apple HomePod Smart Speaker Announcement Plus Keynote Cheat Sheet
After an action packed 2 and a half hours of announcements here are all the highlights from todays WWDC Keynote… iOS iOS 11 Messages now sync’d…
Listen to This: Clockwise Podcast Smart Home Rant
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….
Video: Check Out This New Apple Home Ad for a Slice of Domestic Utopia
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…
Video: Home Automation in 2017 Means “Talking IP in the Cloud”
CNET held an interesting Smart Home discussion during last weeks CES. The panel was made up of industry insiders from SmartThings, Amazon Echo, Google Home and August…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2016
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…
LinkDesk Room Locator: Next Gen Bluetooth Motion Detector
Today, LinkDesk have released their new ‘Room Locator’ in the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. Room Locator is a small battery powered wireless Bluetooth device for…
Devolo Home Control Review Part 1 – Starter Pack
Interested in having a ‘smart home’? Want to do more than just switch a few lights on and off? Want to save energy and cut…
My Automated Home: Domoticz Powered Open Source Smart Home
Our latest “My Automated Home” story comes from Ian Gardner and his Domoticz powered smart home. My home automation journey started around 12 years ago with a…
Review: Aeon Labs Aeotec Z-Wave Plus Multisensor 6
We’ve had an Aeon Labs Z-Wave MultiSensor 6 since the summer and with the recent addition of a SmartThings hub in the Automated Home we’re finally able…
Top 10 Smart Home Videos from CES 2016
The 2016 CES show was billed as the one about the smart home. With 56,000 sq ft of floor space given over to home automation, double that of…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2015
The end of another year as we close in on an important Automated Home milestone, but more on that soon. Z-Wave really took off in…
Exclusive Interview: ‘Works with Nest’ at the Centre of The Smart Home
It’s been less than 18 months since the ‘Works with Nest’ program was launched and Nest say they’ve already signed up more than 10,000 developers. Their devices…
Our Cheat Sheet From Apple’s iPhone, iPad & TV Announcements Today
Apple have just finished their most important keynote address of the year “Hey Siri”. The annual Autumn announcement that brings details of their latest iPhones and iPads….
Our Cheatsheet of All the News from Apple WWDC Keynote
Apple’s 2015 WWDC keynote has just finished. HomeKit ‘has been taking off’ and Apple are adding support for window shades (blinds) plus ‘all types of…
Will The Cloud be the Integrator in the Sky to Save Home Automation?
A few weeks ago Amazon added support for the WeMo and Philips Hue lights to their Echo home speaker. Suddenly people who had the Amazon device plus the lighting products in…
Take Part In Our “evohome Inventor Webchat” for Chance to Win a Honeywell evohome System
Automated Home and Honeywell have teamed up for a live webchat with the inventors of the Honeywell evohome Smart Thermostat in our Chat Room from 8:00pm to…
Apple Watch: Wrist Worn Wonder or Fashionista Fad?
After todays event we know more about the Apple Watch (check out our cheat sheet below for all the new stuff from the presentation just finished)….
Heat Genius – Controlling Your Central Heating From Your TV
Last year Johannes Jensson reviewed the Heat Genius system for us on Automated home. Now he’s controlling his heating from his telly with the addition of a few accessories… I…
Oomi Launch Learning Home Automation System
In the works since 2013, Oomi is now ready to reveal itself to the world as it launches at CES and on Indiegogo a few hours ago….