December 2008


Idratek Release Cortex V24

 Click Here for Full Size Screen Shot “As well as the usual multitude of detailed enhancements this latest version of Cortex has been influenced by…


Readers Offer – Bye Bye Standby

As a festive treat, Bye Bye Standby are offering readers of Automated Home a free Energy Saver Starter Kit, with purchases of an Online Controller…


Dianemo Integrated Smart Home Solution

Convergent Home Technologies based in England have produced a new smart home system called “Dianemo“. Designed to control lighting, heating, air conditioning, windows, blinds and…


Netbook Bargain

An Automated Home reader has posted a bargain netbook deal on our mailing list this morning.  At under £200 delivered , the Acer Aspire One…




Control4 Australia Integrate XBMC

We’ve been contacted by Control4 in Australia, who were keen to show us how they’ve integrated XBMC into their professional home automation system… “Control4 Australia’s…


Sky Launches Online Subscription Service

Sky’s video-on-demand service, Sky Player [now Sky Go] has just had a make-over.  It now uses Microsoft Silverlight plugin (Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer are all…



Automated Talking Chair

Here’s a project that made us smile.  Some inexpensive X10 kit, the creative use of a window sensor and some imaginative macro programming brings together…


New Z-Wave Store for Europe

We’ve just received a press release from a new European on-line Z-Wave store.  Lets hope this will be a catalylst that will help to kick…



HomeCamp 08 Video – Andy Stanford-Clark

Home Camp 08 was held last Saturday at the Imperial College London.  The “unconference” discussed technology to monitor and automate the home for greener resource…