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…
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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…
My Automated Home: One Woman’s Journey into the Smart Home World
Sometimes the tech world can seem like a private mens club. Thankfully that’s changing with each year that passes and our latest ‘My Automated Home’ feature…
My Automated Home: Heat Genius Smart Home Heating Controls
This months ‘My Automated Home’ feature follows Johannes Jensson’s compressive review of his Heat Genius installation… Nobody has escaped the rapid rise of gas and electricity prices…
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…
My Automated Home: Free Touchscreen Digital Home Server Software
Almost exactly a year ago we brought you the first of in our series of ‘My Automated Home’ articles. It was submitted by Soitjes Soit…
My Automated Home: Tom Lawrence – Home Brew X10 Plus XMBC Control
This months My Automated Home feature comes from Tom Lawrence, a final year student at Staffordshire University. Along with his friend Andy Jackson, he has…
My Automated Home: Nigel Giddings – Installing Broadband in a Rural Location
In this months ‘My Automated Home’ feature, Nigel Giddings shows us his ingenious set-up that grabs a 3G signal from one corner of his rural…
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: Dan McGrath & the iPhone Gate
This month’s ‘My Automated Home’ comes from serial hacker Dan McGrath. We’ve covered some of Dan’s previous projects and they’re always fascinating . This one…
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…
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…
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…
My Automated Home : Soitjes Soit’s Digital Home Server
In the first of our new ‘My Automated Home’ series, Soitjes Soit talks us through the idea behind his home brew Digital Home Server. Created…
Video: My Insanely Automated Home & Morning Routine
Here’s one modern man (seems like a kind of Tony Stark in training) thinking about how to automate some aspects of his morning routine. As many…
Why Can’t I Re-Trigger Flows in Homey?
I’ve been a bit frustrated with some Homey flows (automation) recently because I’m not able to re-trigger them before the first automation has run its…
Smart Home Wifi Chaos Recovery
I managed to get almost everything back online and functioning again after the chaos that ensued after my last update. In fact, for several devices,…
My vibration sensor automation didn’t work out
I recently bought an Aqara vibration sensor with the plan of affixing it to our dining room table for the purpose of setting up a…
I got my first Homey flows going
I’m excited to report that I managed to get my first few flows live in Homey. I connected the Aqara T1 LED bulb to both…
Why my Meross door sensor doesn’t work with Homey
Learn more about Automated Home here. Sorry for not sharing updates for a while. It turns out people aren’t exaggerating when they tell you having…