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This months 'My Automated Home' comes from Delmar Fadden, a man that's no stranger to electronics.  As a retired avionics and flight deck engineer he's spent a lifetime at the sharp end of control systems.  Now with a passion for home automation, he takes us on a tour of his Seattle smart home system which runs on ECS...

We've just learnt that Cytech are doing a special deal on training.  For a limited time, if you buy the Comfort Evaluation Kit they will provide their excellent two-day training course free of charge (excluding accommodation). The next course is scheduled on 21st and 22nd September 2010 at the Touchbase Meetng Centre at the Premier Inn Heathrow.  The Evaluation Kit comprises of a Comfort panel plus KP04, RC01, DP03, RGR04, UCM, SCS/Esprit, and the Comfigurator software. Read on for all the details...

In the latest of our 'My Automated Home' series, Martyn Wendon shows us round the four Nodes of his smart home set-up.  Covering a decade of his retro-fitted tech, the sub systems are plentiful and include lighting, heating, AV, CCTV, utility monitoring, xAP, xPL, 1Wire, HomeEasy, RFXCom, X10, Z-Wave and more!.  So grab a coffee, sit back and geek out..

Savant are building a reputation with their ROSIE system which offers control, automation and entertainment around the home.  A company building home automation products on the Apple platform, it's no big surprise they (like many others) have already lept on the iPad to utilise its smart home potential.  They've just released two new iPad docks, one a desktop unit, the other for mounting the tablet on the wall.  Full details in the PR after the jump...

Here's a useful little device for your smart home set-up.  An Ethernet bridge that allows you to connect your USB devices at any remote location on your LAN.  The interface has 2 x USB 2.0 ports and a gigabit Ethernet socket.  It's compatible with Windows and Mac and allows you to connect up to 15 devices (using a hub) and can be managed and configured using its browser interface.  Its perfect if you are using USB based I/O interface or sensors and would be especially useful if you are running your home automation server on a virtual machine.  the Silex SX-3000GB is around £100, checkout the video after the jump...