Amazon, Apple, Google & Zigbee to Develop New Open Source Smart Connected Home Over IP Standard
Earlier today, in a surprise move, a group of top tech companies announced “Project Connected Home over IP”. Amazon, Apple, Google, and brands from the…
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Frigate is Open Source CCTV People Sensor, MQTT Integration with HomeAssistant
Frigate is an Open Source CCTV People Sensor Blake Blackshear’s project on GitHub uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection on RTSP cameras with…
Open Irrigation is Open Source Raspberry Pi System to Optimise Water Usage
Open Irrigation is a Raspberry Pi based system that uses weather data from Wunderground. It doesn’t require any additional sensors and can control 4 zones of…
[Sponsor] Open Source Automation the Secret to Smarter Buildings
Modern buildings have made use of linear actuators during the automation process. The demand for smarter buildings is increasing steadily hence people are coming up…
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…
Home Assistant – Open Source Python Home Automation Platform
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3. The software allows you to track and control devices around your home from a single, mobile-friendly,…
OpenSprinkler Raspberry Pi and Arduino Based Open Source Irrigation
We’re well into summer now, in this hemisphere at least, and if you’re lucky enough to live in a region that gets enough sun to need…
My Automated Home: Open Source Automation
Ever since I was a kid and saw my first remote controlled light, I got it in my head that this was something that I…
Domoticz is New Free Open Source Home Automation Software
When we added our Home Automation Technology Choices page a few weeks ago we got emails asking us to consider some other systems. Amongst them…
Open Source Freedomotic Home Automation Software Updated
Our friends over at Freedomotic, the open source Home Automation Software project, have sent us details of their latest update. Version 5.3.0 is now available for download…
Make a Home Media Server With Old PC & Open Source VortexBox
While VortexBox has been around since 2008, it had a major update late last year and it’s now based on Fedora 16. Just download the…
Free Open Source Mayhem Software Has Home Automation Potential
Mayhem is a free open source software application that allows you to connect devices to services on your Windows computer. While it’s possible for programmers…
Freedomotic – Open Source Home Automation Software
Last year we ran a piece on ‘Freedom’ – new open source building and home automation software distributed under GPL2 license, written in Java (so…
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…
Open Source iPad X10 Home Automation Controller
We’ve been contacted by Automated Home reader (Mr Flibble) on his interesting step-by-step guide on building a custom iPad web app for the X10 CM15…
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…
DomotiGa – New Open Source Linux Home Automation Software
DomotiGa is a new Open Source Home Automation package from the Netherlands. Written in Gambas basic and almost ready for release, DomotiGa supports X10, RFXCom,…
X10 / Dallas 1-Wire Open Source Software
Open source, java home automation software, jHomeNet collects data from Dallas 1-Wire sensors and controls X10 modules. The team has just released version 0.2 of…
Z-Wave Alliance & Silicon Labs to Open Z-Wave Specification
Just 24 hours after Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled their plans to develop a new Open Source smart home standard, the Z-Wave…
Open Energy Monitor Home Automation Hub with MQTT, nodeRED, OpenHAB & LightwaveRF
At the Fully Charged Live event at Silverstone earlier this month we stopped by the Open Energy Monitor stand for a chat with Glyn Hudson…