Items Tagged With installation

Here's one Automated Home readers account of how he powers various systems around his home from special UPS supplied sockets.  This allows him to keep not only his PCs up during power outages, but also his Home Cinema System, TVs, Phones etc...

Here's a set of three videos from Custom Controls showing recent integration projects for smart home lighting and security systems as well as the Spotify streaming music service.  Watch the other two videos after the jump...

Using a Crestron touchpanel to select mood lighting scenes as part of a Crestron Greenlight system. Also shows how easy it is to create custom mood lighting scenes and instantly recall at the touch of a button.

Automated Home reader Kevin Warner has been building a comprehensive home automation system based on a HomeSeer backend controlled from touch screens using Cinemars MainLobby system.  Check out the photos of his beautiful installation along with his opinions on what works best and his thoughts on future additions...

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...

After our piece on virtual home servers, here's another alternative to saving power, money and the planet whilst still serving your media around the house.  The Tranquil BBS2 Barebones Home Media Server is a low power, 5 SATA bay, barebones box. Just choose your OS and apply...