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Our feelings for Z-Wave are pretty clear here at Automated Home.  While we love the technology and feel its a worthy 21st Century replacement for X10, we hate the fact that despite the years and the promises, the UK still has a pitiful offering of hardware.

Videos like this beautiful new one from Coco just remind us how poorly the UK market is served.  Come on Z-Wave manufacturers - the UK is waiting.

COCO- Controlled Comfort

Update 1 - Is the COCO system Z-Wave power or another wireless technology?  Leave a comment if you know. 

Update 2 -  Looks like COCO is using system same / similar to the HomeEasy range

Here's another reason to love all that CAT5 you sunk into your walls.  The £90 set of CAT5Blaster Wallplates from Keene Electronics allow you to send two independent video channels (either 1 x S-Video or 2 x Composite) plus audio over CAT5 cable for up to 100 metres...

UK Home Automator turned podcaster, Don McAllister, is famous for his high quality video tutorials for the Mac.  This week he comes back to his roots covering a true smart home application and an Automated Home favourite - Plex.  Like us, Don is "blown away" by the OpenSource media player / library manager and the show is a great resource for anyone setting up Plex for the first time as well as showing some of the more advanced features if you are already a Plex user.  Links to the 46 minute long Free HD video after the jump...

TV Catchup, the service which provides quality live streaming of multiple UK television channels, have just launched a stand alone desktop application to view their service.  The dedicated Adobe Air app can be run on Windows, Mac OSX or Linux and replaces the need to run a browser whilst providing more functionality.  See the rest of the screenshots after the jump...

The Popcorn Hour A110 has been available for a few months now and we're hearing good things about.  Unlike many other streaming media players (think Apple TV, PS3 etc) the PCH's hardware handles full 1080P HiDef without any issues...