Video: Node RED Smart Home Lighting Zone Management System
Serial Smart Home Maker, Mat Smith has uploaded his latest video – an hour long tour through his Node-RED home lighting zone management system. Check…
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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…
My Automated Home: Raspberry Pi + Node-Red + MQTT & Amazon Echo
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…
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…
Video: Xandem’s Mesh of Nodes Provides Occupancy Tracking in Your Smart Home
Ah… smart home occupancy detection, that old chestnut. Xandem Home is a new system that promises complete coverage of movement and occupancy detection around your house….
My Automated Home : Martyn Wendon’s Four Nodes
In the latest of our ‘My Automated Home’ series, Martyn Wendon shows us round the four Nodes of his smart home set-up. Covering a decade…
Creating UPS Powered Mains Sockets Around Your Home
Here’s one Automated Home readers account of how he powers various systems around his home from special UPS supplied sockets. This allows him to keep…
Reduce Your Bills with Smart Home Power Monitoring
2008 may be remembered as the year that the rest of us finally started to take an interest in reducing our energy consumption. The huge…
Mac Mini – Home Server/Node Zero Rack
Just spotted this…”UStec, a leader in structured wiring systems for residences, allows you to easily place your Mac mini onto the home network. With our…
NodeZero Gallery
Check Out My Rack – “Node Zero” is the area in the house where all the cables come together. Below is a selection of N0s belonging…
IR – Hardwired Distribution
You run hundreds, maybe thousands of metres of cable round your home. People look at you funny, some point at you and snigger. This week…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2020
2021 is the 25th Anniversary year of this blog, but where do we start with 2020. Despite being memorable for all the wrong reasons, it…
Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Long Range Spec
The Z-Wave Long Range specification, first announced in September, is now available to its Alliance members for product development. Z-Wave LR supports distances of up…
Smart Home Bargains on Amazon Prime Day
Today and tomorrow (13th & 14th October 2020) sees Amazon run their annual Prime Day promotion. Here’s our pick of some of the best smart…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2019
2019 was one to remember. It was the year that work got underway on the Automated Home 2.0 – thank you for following along with…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2018
2018 was an interesting year for us. We moved out of the Automated Home in October and our End of an Era announcement was your…
Review: New Google Home Hub – Perfect Smart Display For Your Bedroom?
The MadeByGoogle event last month launched the Pixel 3 as expected. But there was a surprise or two as well, not least the new Home Hub….
Setting Up Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) at the Automated Home
Living in the countryside is great, except for one thing, the dreaded curse that is rural broadband. Actually to be fair we weren’t tooooo bad…
UniPi Neuron is Raspberry Pi Based Multi I/O Controller for Smart Home Applications
UniPi technology is a small Czech-based company that produces the modular Neuron PLC. They describe their module as… …a product line of PLC (Programmable Logic Controller)…
Our Top Choices for Black Friday Smart Home Tech Deals
We’ve sorted the Black Friday wheat from the chaff as well as adding some of our favourite items from this year, plus a few Amazon Choice…