Fancy automating your curtains / drapes? What about having them close at dusk each day, or perhaps having them open automatically at a certain time each morning.  Having the ability to open and close your curtains can be a serious deterrant against break-ins whilst you're away from your property too.  Along with a slightly randomised replay of your normal daily lighting routine it gives a house a very convincing lived in look...

CE Pro have news on a new range of z-wave door locks from Schlage.  Having a door lock that can be controlled and monitored from a computer or cell phone sounds like some sort of home automation perfection but that's exactly what you can do with these puppies via a Z-Wave to Ethernet gateway...

We reported five weeks ago on the new Sonos Zoneplayers under development.  We know there were some doubters out there but our info was spot on and today we can reveal our world exclusive first photos of the new Sonos ZP120 hardware...

Control4 are a relative new comer to the world of home automation but their reputation is growing fast.  With reasonable pricing, full integration and beautiful hardware they have made a splash in the smart home world.  So when we heard about their expansion plans for the UK we jumped at the chance to ask their MD Tony Leedham some questions...

Here's an interesting little $80 device USB device that supports hard/flash drives, memory card reader, USB webcams, USB speakers and USB Multi-Function printers, all over Etherent.  It looks like Windows only and although it supports 4 USB devices it's only got a single USB port so you're going to need to add a hub... 

Recently featured on Channel Five's Gadget Show, the AlertMe is a brand new Smart Home Security system from a UK start-up.  After spending a few weeks with the product we reveal its highs and lows and provide the information you need to decide if it's right for you...

In the third of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we talk to Dave Robinson of Sensible Heat.   Dave shows us round the new Web Manager, an embedded Linux PC heating controller.  We also talk about the third party home automation companies interfacing to their technology and the reason this year in particular people are taking heating control more seriously than ever...

Keene Electronics have just announced their new Quattro.  Another product in the Keene Video over CAT5 family, this unit is like having four transmitters in a single box. It routes four separate AV inputs (S-Video + Stereo audio) to four CAT5 outputs and can be paired with a matrix switcher to give comprehensive any-to-any source switching...

Danish based company Modstroem have developed an interesting new Z-Wave based electricity monitoring system.  The device includes a small digital camera that mounts on the meter to read energy consumption...