Useful Gadget of the Week: Toshiba Canvio Connect II 3TB Portable Hard Drive
Whether its a garage or a hard drive, chances are if you’re like us you’ll always fill the available space. So when Toshiba asked us…
New Products
Yeti Integrates Control of Your Smart Home in a Single App
Yeti aims to control your entire smart home from a single app on iOS or Android. We asked the team to tell us what it can do… How…
EZVIZ is New UK Smarthome System from Hikvision
Hikvision, well know as one of the world’s leading CCTV manufacturers, have turned their attention to the consumer market with the EZVIZ smart home system. EZVIZ…
UK Launch for Homey Smart Home Hub With Z-Wave, ZigBee, WiFi, BLE, IR, 433 & 868 MHz
Last week saw the introduction of a brand new smart home hub to the UK market Dutch start up Athom successfully launched Homey on Kickstarter…
Video: Ikea Introduces New TRÅDFRI ZigBee Based Smart Home Lighting Range
Ikea have launched a compressive new range of LED smart home lighting. The TRÅDFRI Smart Lighting collection arrived in UK stores last week and includes energy-efficient…
ComfortClick Introduces Jigsaw KNX Server
ComfortClick, the company behind bOS (building Operation System), the universal home automation platform that enables integration of all major systems and devices through a single…
Video: 3D Printed House in 24 Hours
3D printing is fascinating and I’ve been lucky enough to have some plastic parts printed by a CEO friends half-million pound machine. I follow Formula 1 closely…
WIN a Panasonic Nubo 4G CCTV Camera Worth £325
To celebrate the UK launch of this exciting camera, Panasonic have chosen to make it exclusively available from Vesternet. They’ve also asked us to give one…
Useful Gadget of the Week: Inexpensive PIR LED Bulb Airing Cupboard Upgrade
Here’s an inexpensive 5 minute job that could earn you some serious brownie points this weekend. The Airing Cupboard (or ‘Hot Press’ if you’re from…
Video: Building a Better Mouse Trap – The Z-Wave Dome Mouser
The Dome Home Automation DMMZ1 Mouse Trap is a rodent electric trap with Z-Wave technology built-in. It kills mice, rats and other rodents quickly, cleanly…
Loxone Announce Range of New LED Lighting Plus 24V Dimmer with Tree Technology
Last years Loxone Tree Roll Out was one of our top 20 most read articles. Today Loxone have announced an update to the range with new LED Lighting and…
Qubino’s Tiny Z-Wave Plus RGBW Smart Home Dimmer
Qubino are smart home specialists from Slovenia and their new Z-Wave Plus RGBW Dimmer is ideal for dimming RGB/RGBW strips, LED strips and bulbs, or even halogen…
Keene KIRAQ is Networked IR and RS232 Control for Sky HD & Sky Q
The new KIRAQ module is part of the Keene IR Anywhere range, and is designed specifically to provide an integrated control solution for SkyHD and…
Loxone Nano DI Tree Brings Switch Freedom to Your Smart Home
Loxone’s cable reducing technology is proving a bit hit with home owners and was one of our most popular articles from 2016 when it launched in April….
D-Link launches Omna 180 Cam – First Apple HomeKit Enabled IP CCTV Camera
The Omna 180 Cam HD is a new Apple HomeKit enabled camera from D-Link. The Omna 180 Cam HD provides an easy way for users…
New Yale Conexis L1 Smart Door Lock
The new Conexis L1 smart lock from Yale puts you fully in control of your door, allowing you to configure, control and unlock your home all from…
Video: The New Fibaro Z-Wave KeyFob
The new Fibaro KeyFob is a pocket seized Z-Wave Plus remote control that’s small enough to always be with you (7 cms x 3.8 cms)…
Video: Brilliant Control is Cool New Smart Home Touchscreen Wall Mount Controller
Brilliant Control is cool new touchscreen wall mounted controller that’s compatible with Sonos, Nest, SmartThings, Ring and other smart home devices. Amazon Alexa is built…
Dream House Down to the Details: 101 Cool Ideas – Technical Tips, Tweaks & Tricks
Last year Patrick Littlehales showed us his Eco-heating systems with a twist. Now he’s published an ebook on building your dream home covering over 100 topics including…
Video: Best New Smart Home Tech 2.0
Here’s a quick video from well known reviewer – UrAvgConsumer, showing his favourite new smart home tech… Want More? – Follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook, or…