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xAP Blue V0.1 Brings Bluetooth Presence Detection PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 16 June 2008
xAP Bluetooth
James Traynor continues to produce innovative software based on the xAP home automation protocol.  His latest creation "Blue" allows your home to detect your presence using Bluetooth.  It's not hard to imagine scenarios where presence detection would be extremely useful in a smart home setup, providing you can figure out the logic required to establish if you are still "there" as you perhaps walk in and out of range of the receiver...
 



 
Exclusive First Look at New IR over TCP/IP Uniits PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 16 June 2008

IR Anywhere

Here's a first look at some pretty special pre-release sample units of the "IR Anywhere" system from Keene Electronics.  The new system allows you to send Infra Red remote control signals across your network cabling, but unlike other systems that simply use the CAT as a medium to send the electrical signals, IR Anywhere actually converts the infra red into packet data for transmission across your LAN via TCP/IP.  The signals are received at the module with the IP address they were sent to where they are de-coded and output back as IR....

 
AirRemote for iPhone Brings Total Home Control PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 14 June 2008

 AirRemote

Yes, it's another iPhone remote do-hicky, but this one is really interesting.  Created in the UK by Steve Moore the system comprises of two parts.  An iPhone / iPod touch application and a hardware base station that recevies the commands from the iPhone app and converts them to IR and Serial commands allowing you to control anything from a TV to an entire AMX home automation system...

 
Keene RF2IR - IR Distribution via Aerial Cable PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 13 June 2008

Keene RD2IR

 

While there are IR distribution systems available that use CAT5, many homes don't have the structured cabling required to use them.  Keen Electronics have just launched their new retro-fit-friendly RF2IR system which transmits IR signals around the home using existing TV Coax cables.  Priced at £45 the system is available now...

 
LinuxMCE 710 - An Overview PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 12 June 2008

LinuxMCE

 

LinuxMCE is of course a open-source media centre distro.  But did you know you can use it as a home automation controller as well?  Other goodies are lurking under the bonnet too such as the integrated Asrerisk VoIP system, already pre-configured for many providers and phone hardware.  Read on for the overview of this amazing free system...

 
HAI Introduces WL3 for Windows Home Server PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 11 June 2008

HAI WL3 for Windows Home Server

 

HAI (Home Automation, Inc.) has announced a new software product called WL3 for Windows Home Server.  Available from next month, WL3 is an Add-in for a WHS that allows you to monitor and control your HAI Home Control System from any device with a web browser, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, Smartphone, computer, PDA, etc...

 
AH0011 - SHS2008 Video 5 - WebBrick PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 June 2008

In the fifth and final of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we have a quick chat with Guy Reece from WebBrick.  Guy talks about the hectic last 12 months for the company and how they are using their product to manage renewables and save energy in other intelligent home configurations.  The WebBrick gateway uses standards based HTML so can be configured to output almost anything you require and support for DMX lighting control has just been added too...

 


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Apple Announce New iPhone 3G - All the Details PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 09 June 2008

 3G iPhone Launch

The wait is over, some rumours smashed, others proven true.  The next generation Phone was announced a few minutes ago by Steve Jobs in his keynote at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  Of course the iPhone is now a 3G device as expected and it now features a built in GPS.  Read on for all the other juicy details...

UPDATE - UK Tariffs just published  

 
Code to Interface Your Home to Twitter PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 09 June 2008

 Home Connected to Twitter

Last week we interviewed Andy Stanford-Clark on his smart home integration with Twitter and now we have a document published by computer science student Justin Wickett giving his open source script to do the same.  Read on for the code that gets your home communicating with you via SMS text message to your mobile plus all the other advantages Twitter offers...

 
eHome Creation Release V5.15 of eHome Digital Tools PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 09 June 2008

eHome Digital Tools

eHome Creation have just released version 5.15 of their eHome Digital Tools home automation software.  The $45 touch screen application includes modules for Audio, Video, Kitchen, Office, Games, Weather and Browser and now supports iPhone style "gestures" too.  Read on for the rest of the features...

 
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