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In recent weeks the HomeEasy wireless home automation kit from Byron has attracted a lot of interest.  Its low cost and extensive ranges of modules even lead our reviewer to conclude it may be the X10 replacement he's looking for.  However, the one thing that’s been missing is any sort of PC integration.  Until now...

We're huge fans of xBox Media Center here at Automated Home, and with 2nd hand boxes available for around £40 theses days it really is the media player bargain of the century. One little problem is the lack of an IR controlled On/Off facility for the system, but now UK Home Automation mailing list old timer, and serial moder Quinten Uijldert has blogged his installation of the XIR Easy Kit which fixes this issue...

Engadget have a great tutorial on building your own solid-state AV switcher...

"In this How-To we'll show you how to wire up your own A/V switcher which you can expand and use any way you'd like, for composite, S-Sideo, component, even VGA signals. Sure, you can buy a newer, really expensive TV's with multiple inputs (even component), but for those of us whose credit cards aren't quite up to that challenge, more inputs for less cash would be rather desirable. Let's get started...

Hacked Gadgets brings you schematics and photos of Raphael Assenat's home built, opto isolated lighting control system...