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This months "My Automated Home" feature is from Keyvan Rahimian who shows us around his DIY IPad based home automation set-up. The system uses an impressively professional looking visual interface in conjunction with with a hardware Ethernet to IR gateway from Global Cache to control his AV and Sonos whole house audio systems...

Here's a new video preview of the Android client for the HomeSeer smart home HSTouch system. Compatible with Z-Wave, X10, Insteon, UPB and others for controlling your lighting, climate, security and irrigation etc.  Of course you can launch any 'HomeSeer Event' too...

Tee-Boy software have just announce the release of version 2.0 of their WeatherSnoop for Mac OS X.  WeatherSnoop interfaces with a wide range of personal and professional weather station hardware as well as Internet-based data sources.  The software now produces full colour graphs of your historical data for trending an analysis plus beautifully rendered instruments and gauges that show temperature, wind, rain, and more changing in real-time...

We've had an email from the developers of a new Android app for KNX/EIB control - KNXDroid - a client that connects to the bus through KNXNet/IP gateway using the phone's WiFi or 3G connection.  The user can enter manually the KNXNet/IP gateway or have the application find it itself with the "Auto discovery" feature... 

Here's a neat combination of hardware and software to allow you to control your AV system from your iOS device.  The Demopad app provides the customisable front end to your control set-up, while the Keene KIRA128 IP to infra-red module allows you to learn, store and send the commands...