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Video: Lighting with Loxone

Mark McCall — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:19:00 +0000

We’ve covered some in-depth Loxone Case Studies already, but here’s something really easy to digest. The Loxone guys have put together a quick 90 second video showing their Miniserver set up to control lighting ‘scenes’. With home automation systems like this you get much more than the ability to just remotely turn lights on and [...]

TWiT Demonstrates Google Glass – Home Automation Potential?

Mark McCall — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:15:48 +0000

There have been plenty of Google Glass reviews already but last Sundays episode of ‘This Week in Tech’ provided one of the best insights yet into the product. The $1,500 developer preview should be more like $200-$500 once it’s available as a consumer product in 2014. But it’s going to require an adjustment to ’social norms’ before we [...]

Video: Clipsal Colour eDLT for C-Bus

Mark McCall — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:32:58 +0000

A recent post on our C-Bus Forums highlighted a couple of new videos from Clipsal on their new eDLT (enhanced Dynamic Labelling Technology) switches… The best just got better with Clipsal’s eDLT (enhanced Dynamic Labelling Technology). The eDLT provides sophisticated and user friendly control of your C-Bus System and offers the ability to customise the colour [...]

Found Video: Entire Apartment Controlled by iPad

Mark McCall — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:21:00 +0000

Here’s another video from Apple based Home Automation company Savant Systems. This latest tour of their Soho apartment shows the technology integrated across the home. Using the iPad to control itunes for whole house audio plus extensive lighting control too. ’True Image’ provides a photo of the apartment and touching the lamp in the photo controls that lamp. [...]

Video: Leo Laporte Reviews Belkin WeMo Home Automation Modules

Mark McCall — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:07:53 +0000

Here’s a great little 6 minute video from our favourite tech podcaster Leo Laporte. His TWiT network show ‘Before You Buy’ reviews new technology and Leo puts the Belkin system through its paces, demonstrating a setup using the WeMo Switch plus Motion movement sensor all controlled from an iPad (there’s an Android app in the works too). Leo also [...]

Video: Control4 Home Automation Haven in Notting Hill London

Mark McCall — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:04:15 +0000

Home owner and art lover Mark Christophers hired James Paul AV to install a Control4 system in this automated Bachelor Pad in London Mark Christophers (Homeowner) – “I love urban art, and I love twisted art. The stuff that people like or they’ll hate. I like stuff which is challenging, something a bit different. A sort of [...]

Video: CommandFusion Tutorial Designs GUI’s for iOS and Android Home Automation

Mark McCall — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:43:44 +0000

CommandFusion are well known for their iViewer mobile home automation app. They’ve recently posted some useful links in our forums for a couple of video tutorials that give a good insight into their powerful guiDesigner software. This is a Windows application that provides a CI or DIY installer a drag and drop environment to develop custom user interfaces that [...]

Video: Raspberry Pi and Siri Hack Controls Garage Door

Mark McCall — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:45:37 +0000

Here’s a nice little hack using Siriproxy running on a Raspberry Pi, connected to a relay attached to a motorised garage door system. Check out the video and the forum post for the code… raspberrypi.org : raspberry pi on Amazon Want More? - Follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook, or subscribe to our RSS feed. You can even [...]

New LightwaveRF Video Explains Home Automation Range

Mark McCall — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:28:25 +0000

The guys at JSJS Designs have just released this new 17 minute video. It’s a great introduction to the LightwaveRF home automation range covering lighting, mood / scene switches, mains sockets for appliances, heating control, radiator valves and controlling it all from your smartphone. Check out the full range of LightwaveRF modules on Amazon Want More? - Follow [...]

Video: OpenRemote Demos Application Integration on iPhone and iPad

Mark McCall — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:44:51 +0000

This new video from the guys at OpenRemote demonstrates an integrated home automation scenario controlled by their open source software. They’ve created and integrated four different application areas: lighting, climate, entertainment and a security tab dubbed ‘peace of mind’. Check out the video below The lighting application is based on Z-wave switches and allows lights control based [...]