The Best Mac Home Automation Platform Gets Even Better with Indigo v7 Release
The guys at Indigo Domotics have been working hard for more than a year on their latest release and earlier this week they launched v7. Indigo 7 has…
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Mac Home Automation: Indigo Touch iOS App v2.0
Indigo Domotics have just released the long awaited v2.0 of Indigo Touch. The iOS app that is the control companion to their popular Mac home automation…
Indigo Rule Out HomeKit Integration, For Now
Back in June Apple announced their new home automation framework, HomeKit. Since then home automation hardware and software companies have been delving into the nitty-gritty to…
Mac Home Automation Software Specialist Rebrands as Indigo Domotics
Perceptive Automation, makers of the highly regarded Mac Home Automation software have a new name. In a move that more closely reflects their product, the company…
Indigo: Home Automation on the Mac – Part 3 – IP Garage Door Control
Adding IP control to your garage doors is a great little home automation project for a wet weekend and it really shows the power and…
Indigo: Home Automation on the Mac – Part 2 – RFXCOM & The Wireless Door Bell
As we mention in Part 1 of our review, the action of simply plugging in an RFXCOM RFXtrx433 to a USB port on your Indigo Mac…
Indigo: Home Automation on the Mac – Part 1
14 years after moving into the Automated Home we’re still using those X10 DIN rail modules in the loft. There’s still no status available and…
Perceptive Automation Announce Indigo 6 Mac Home Automation Software
Today Perceptive Automation has moved their Indigo software from beta to official v6.0 release. We’ve been looking over the Mac OS X home automation application…
Mac Home Automation Software Indigo Now Supports Z-Wave
Perceptive Automation have released beta v6 of Indigo, their Home Automation suite for Max OS X. Amongst a raft of new features there’s now support for…
Mac OSX Home Automation Software Indigo 5.0 Released
[Update ] Check out our Indigo Review here. Perceptive Automation have announced the next major release of their Mac Home Automation software – Indigo v5.0. …
Mac Home Automation on your TV with Indigo and Plex
Submission By: Charles Friedberg – Plex + Indigo + Harmony Remote = Home Automation Bliss – Why do it? About a year ago, I decided…
Perceptive Automation Release Indigo v3
Perceptive Automation have just released v3.0 of their Indigo home automation software for the Mac. The upgrade is free for owners of V2 and there’s…
Efergy Engage Hub Monitors Home Energy Consumption & PV Solar Generation Online
We all know the story, you need to be able to measure something before you can set about implementing changes. It’s no different for your home’s power…
Say Hello, Z-Wave Goodbye
Part of the attraction of a Z-Wave smart home setup is the great range of hardware modules on offer. There are currently 375 different manufacturers producing over…
Homebridge Links Legacy Home Automation Devices to Apple HomeKit
[UPDATE – Read our HomeBridge tutorial for a guide on how to set it up with SmartThings and Siri] As companies decide wether or not to…
Review: IP Control of Your IR Gear with Global Caché iTach IP2IR
Expensive dedicated universal remotes are increasingly going the way of the dodo in all but the most bespoke of smart homes. The proliferation of touchscreen smartphones…
New RFXCOM RFXtrx433E Adds Somfy RTS Motor Control
We use the excellent RFXtrx433 with our Mac based Indigo home automation setup. Now there’s a new version of the wireless smart home swiss army knife,…
Netatmo Wireless Rain Gauge Addon for Weather Station
We reviewed the Netatmo weather station over a year ago and it has continued to provide us with a reliable way to monitor and record the…
Our New Home Server Isn’t a Server – The Synology 1813+ NAS Review
Like most of you, our storage requirements have been growing over the years. Our first Jukebox server was built in 2005, mainly to store music…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2013
Another year has passed and with it the chance to look back at the state of the union in the world of home automation. There…