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The guys from iRidium have contacted us with the details on the latest release of their Home Automation software app...

Mayhem is a free open source software application that allows you to connect devices to services on your Windows computer.  While it's possible for programmers to create links like these, Mayhem's simple UI of events and reactions allows us mere mortals to do the same.  You choose the trigger input and then the corresponding output you want to fire. Some of the examples in the video include an Xbox remote being used to advance PowerPoint slides and a home automation setup using a voice command to control an Insteon lamp.  Check out the video below...

Our favourite media centre system, Plex, has released another update, this time to the server half of the partnership.  Amongst the list of fixes and new features is the promise of a version coming soon that builds in a DLNA server. This will instantly add a huge range of new clients to the Plex family.  The XBox 360 and PS3 are two examples of common hardware that supports DLNA.  Watch the video after the jump...

iRidium version 2.0 is coming in April this year and the company showed a beta of the product at the recent Integrated Systems Europe show. The software will control any Home Automation system, AV equipment and media server from iOS, Windows, Android, Mac OSX , BlackBerry, etc.  Read on for all the new features...

Control4 are bringing their Andriod MyHome app to many more users as they roll out versions in 19 languages in the next few weeks.  The free app currently supports Android mobile devices with version 2.1 through 4.0 of the operating system...