Automated Home 2.0 – #11 Our Floor Plan
We’ve already looked at how we arrived at our target room sizes, and the process around the design of the house, so next it’s the…
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Case Study: 8 Luxury Smart Apartments in Henley
Jack Morgan of Smart Works, installers of home automation and AV systems explains how the Faradite range of products played a major role developing a…
Automated Home 2.0 – #10 Here’s Our New House Design
Last time we looked at our building site and work getting underway. Today we’re revealing our design for the new house. Contemporary We started working…
Bargain: WiFi Power Strip – 3 Smart Sockets with Voice Control for Price of 1
Here’s an interesting and inexpensive device for your smart home. The Yagala WiFi Power Strip has 3 mains sockets that can each be controlled individually….
Survey: Newcastle University Study on Smart Home Disappointments
Last week we were contacted by Davit Marikyan, a research associate and Doctoral Student at Newcastle University (UK). If you’ve ever been disappointed with one…
Video: Hubitat is SmartThings Alternative with Local Processing & Privacy
I’ve been enjoying Matt Ferrell’s ‘Undecided’ YouTube channel for a while now and it was a pleasant surprise to see his latest video was on…
ComfortClick Launches Colibri – the First Z-Wave Hub for Professional Projects
ComfortClick has launched what it’s billing as the first Z-Wave hub intended for both commercial and residential projects. Colibri enables system integrators and DIYers to…
Collecting My Tesla Model 3 Today – A Petrol Head’s Journey to the Electric Side
At 3:30am on 1st April 2016 I was sat up in bed, refreshing a stubbornly unresponsive web page. Five thousand miles west, it was early…
Frigate is Open Source CCTV People Sensor, MQTT Integration with HomeAssistant
Frigate is an Open Source CCTV People Sensor Blake Blackshear’s project on GitHub uses OpenCV and Tensorflow to perform realtime object detection on RTSP cameras with…
Video: Control & Automate Your Husqvarna Automower With IFTTT
Just a quick post for all you Automower owners out there. IFTTT have recently added support for Husqvarna’s range of garden robots… With the IFTTT…
Automated Home 2.0 – #09 Work Has Begun!
Just a quick update this time, but a significant one. Work Has Begun A few weeks ago we tied things up with our chosen builder…
Check Out This Cool Budget Wall Controller Setup using Home Assistant
Reddit user loonysup posted this cool smart home control panel Been working on this for a while now. It’s utilizing home assistant on the backend….