Automated Home

  UK Distributors RGB, have just opened a Savant Experience Show Home to demonstrate how Savant has brought the familiarity of the Apple user interface to home automation. The system powering the central London Show Home is based on a Savant SmartMediaPro12 modular matrix switch/controller fitted with cards for 8 zones of audio and 10 zones of [...]

A few days ago I put a shout out on our Twitter and Facebook feeds for some spec recommendations for a gaming PC.  A short time later I got a reply from Automated Home reader (and computer shop owner) David Lucas. Now the last time I built a PC it was a Pentium 3 so [...]

Laser are a well known home automation retailer (and long time friends and supporter of Automated Home).  This morning they’ve launched their latest venture, a new site selling a huge range of KNX Home Automation equipment and they have a launch discount for Automated Home reader.  Read on for the details. PRESS RELEASE – Laser [...]

Inspired by a recent thread on our forums we’ve launched a brand new feature on Automated Home today. Home Automation Systems and Technology Choices is an overview of some of the most popular smart home technologies currently available.  This includes everything from basic protocols through hardware, software right up to all encompassing systems.  We’ll be updating this [...]

As one of the big forces in the home automation world we were delighted that the KNX Association Director Joost Demarest kindly agreed to take time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions for Automated Home…. 1. Hi Joost, can you tell us a bit about your background and what led you into the exciting world [...]

Loxone recently won the German Smart Home Award in the ‘Best Project’ category.  The prize was award for ”The Brown Box”, a smart home fully kitted out with Loxone.  Thanks to Loxone we’ve republished their case study detailing the winning home automation system … The 240m² family house, built in 2008, is not just all about [...]

Earlier this week another major manufacturer (Panasonic) announced a raft of new smart home hardware, software and cloud services. They join the long list of world-wide corporations producing these ‘standalone’ systems. It’s almost 5 years since I wrote the Smart Home Utopia piece, but where’s the progress?  In a world where any manufacturers TV plugs into any [...]

Welcome to Automated Home v4.0, After lots of blood sweat and tears we’ve completed the move to the new site, the fourth major update since we launched in 1996.

Thanks to the sterling work of the Plex team – especially ‘hd1080′ – owners of all 2010 Samsung C-Series TVs with ‘Internet@TV’ and all 2011 D-Series TVs with ‘SmartHub’ are now able to install the free Plex client from the official apps store. A few clicks and the client was downloaded and installed and it [...]

Most self respecting Automated Home readers run a home server and now you can all have one thanks to HP’s £100 cash back deal on their ProLiant MicroServers.  Read on for the rest of the links and the model number you can get this deal on which ends soon… How to qualify - Purchase a HP ProLiant [...]