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Earlier this month we had a request from a reader to setup a new forums facility for users to write up their home automation projects so others can benefit from their experience.  So the "Projects" forum was born.  To start us off there are now projects there from user jaffaon - Temperature Capture plus a two-part post on ripping / storing your DVD collection and then streaming the movies around your home.  Join in and post your projects in the new forum...

Vesternet have launched what they are describing as the worlds first dedicated ZigBee eCommerce store.  With a huge range of ZigBee equipped products plus their own newly developed Zigbox Ethernet gateway and Zigbytes web-based user interface, the site is sure to be of interest to home automators.  Read on for the full release...  

News this morning from our forums that Clipsal are going to open up access to their C-Bus protocol. This is the news many custom installers and DIYers have been waiting for as it should seemuch easier integration of C-Bus prducts with other systems.  Interestingly this comes very soon after the announcement that Philips have aquired Dynalite.  The future of lighting control is definatley going to be interesting...

RSS feeds are a great way to catchup on all your favourite sites.  We recommend Google Reader which makes it fun to trawl your feeds from any comuter or even your phone.  At Automated Home we offer three smart home RSS Feeds which we just moved onto the FeedBurner system.  This gives us better control of our RSS, improved formatting and should also allow us to monitor subscribers better.  Read on for the new URLs and the buttons to add Reader...