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Home CCTV Server

Wednesday, 4 August 2004

I have had CCTV at home for 8 years now in one form or another. Over that time camera performance has increased, whilst prices have fallen. Par for the course where most technology is concerned I suppose. A year or so ago I bought a Samsung CCTV switcher from eBay to view our cameras by modulating its output round all the TVs in the house. Using its simple timer it switched between each camera at a set interval, while this worked it was frustrating as the camera you wanted to view was rarely the one that was on the screen at that particular moment in time. The eBay acquired switcher died a month or so ago and so the search for the “upgrade” was on...

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UKHA2004 Review

Monday, 17 May 2004

The UK Home Automation community have been meeting annually since 2001. The “UKHA2004” event was held on the 15th and 16th May 2004, in Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Hatfield, near London. This is my review of the event...

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HomeVision Central Heating

Thursday, 29 January 2004

  

The existing heating controller is a 3 channel affair - Upstairs, Downstairs and Hot water. We will only require an interface to channels 1 and 2 as our hot water is supplied from the stove and not the central heating boiler.

We are happy enough to use the existing thermostats - downstairs there are 6 zones of under-floor heating with a stat in each zone controlled by motorised valves on the manifold. Upstairs the radiators all have TRVs.

Although we are using a dedicated hardware controller (HomeVision - which has proved utterly reliable since it was installed in July 1997), we also wanted to leave the existing heating timer connected so it is possible to easily use it again if the need arises...

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Self Build

Thursday, 29 January 2004

 

After taking TEN YEARS to get planning permission we finally "cut the first sod" on St Patrick's Day (17th March 1998). Here's a pictorial record of the building progress...

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