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…
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GreenIQ Smart Irrigation Hub is “Nest for the Garden”
Israeli IoT startup GreenIQ produces what they describe as a “Nest for the Garden”. The smart hub for the outdoors controls irrigation based on current and predicted…
Video: Eve & Adam Zigbee Smart Home Irrigation
This weeks smart home crowd funded candidate is ‘Eve’, an 8 or 16 zone intelligent irrigation controller. Eve communicates with its partner, the ‘Adam’, a…
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…
X10 Irrigation Controller
We’ve just received this from CyberSelect… “Thought your readers might like to know that we now have the Rain8 X10 irrigation controller (and software) available…
Irrigation
Ian Bird has just added some great info and pictures to his site about his irrigation system… “I built a small relay board especially for…
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)…
Exclusive Interview: The ZigBee Alliance on v3.0, The IoT & Affordable Sensors
ZigBee is the technology behind the SmartThings Hub, Philips Hue Lighting and many other home automation modules and sensors. We asked Mark Walters, VP of Strategic…
Hozelock’s New Cloud Controller Waters Your Garden from App
As the darkness of winter approaches here’s a story that’ll make you look forward to Spring even more than usual. Hozelock, Britain’s leading watering experts, are…
Video: Tour of Aussie Mansion Home Automation Setup
Here’s a quick video tour of an impressive home automation setup from Australia. Installed by ‘Electronic Living’ the Savant powered system even includes an automated diving platform…
Video: Iro WiFi Smart Controller for Home Sprinkler Systems
Iro is a new smart controller for home sprinkler systems. It automatically changes your watering program based on a variety of variables which include weather,…
Latest Open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) Update Brings Raft of New Features
Kai Kreuzer updates us on the progress of the open Home Automation Bus (openHAB) software project… Only 8 months after our 1.0 release we have reached…
panStamp Open Wireless Home Automation Platform
panStamp is an open wireless home automation platform forming a complete ecosystem of wireless nodes and IP controllers. This solution mainly consists of panStamps, low-power wireless modules…
Wiring Guide
UPDATE – follow our new Smart Home build here – Automated Home 2.0 Welcome to the Automated Home Wiring Guide. This guide documents the installation…
Logical Move for Cytech’s New Home Automation Controller
Cytech, famous for their “Comfort” smart home security system, have just announced a new Home Automation controller. With its If/Then/Else logic it’s ideal for controlling…
Video: HomeSeer HSTouch Introduction
Home Automation software makers, HomeSeer, have just put a 45 minute webinar video of an introduction to HSTouch – their touchscreen interface software. If you’re…
Video Preview of Android Home Automation Client for HomeSeer HSTouch
Here’s a new video preview of the Android client for the HomeSeer smart home HSTouch system. Compatible with Z-Wave, X10, Insteon, UPB and others for…
Z-Wave Water Shut-off Valve Saves Flooded Homes
The new WV-01 from Fortrezz aims to save some of the one million homes ruined by burst water pipes each year. The valve can be…
Smart Home & Connected Home Convergence: The e-Home Automation Showhouse Dubai
There’s been lots of interest in the e-homeautomation.com smart house we featured from from last weeks Gadget Show. We asked e-Home to give us some details…
Cortexa Introducing Graphite UI Plus iPhone App
We’ve been watching the Cortexa Home Automation system since 2005 . Recently they have the introduced Graphite, their new GUI which will be available on…