Category Archives: Home automation

Automated homes do things for you, they react to you and your actions using sensors to detect what you’re doing then turn on the lights, work the blinds, or change the temperature accordingly. In my house, my lights are motion detecting in some areas which makes them use far less power as I can’t leave them on.

Wired UK on Home Automation

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Simon

I was travelling back from a meeting yesterday on the train and decided to grab the UK edition of Wired to read to pass the time.  In it there was a good, short and to the point article on home … Continue reading →

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The snag list

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Simon

Ok, it is time to admit it.  All is not well in the geeky home.  There are little niggles, everythings working but it’s not slick and it’s not well integrated enough.  It’s time to start finding some solutions.  Here are … Continue reading →

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Y-CAM

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Simon

For a while now I’ve been looking at some home monitoring systems and how I can best integrate them into my digital experience.  Previously I’ve used Yawcam with some pretty great results but currently I’m trying to reduce my carbon … Continue reading →

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Lovin’ the Home Server experience

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Simon

Gotta say I’m really loving the experience of Home Server.  It’s got to be one one the best products MS have put out in years!  It’s so simple, so well thought out.  I’ve got the client “Connector” software installed on … Continue reading →

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Projects I want to do

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Simon

It’s fair to say there are a number of projects I want to do ggua year and I intend to post about each of them as I do them. cctv: I want to be able to remotely monitor the house … Continue reading →

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Yawcam – Yet Another Webcam Software

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Simon

I wanted some form of monitoring from the home setup of something. Not really sure why but I sometimes get a bit worried when we are away from home. So I picked up a Tesco Value Webcam and found the … Continue reading →

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Power Monitoring

Posted on February 13, 2008 by Simon

This looks like a really interesting new system that I’d really love to get into. The Greener Grass: Concept – Current State This is an automation system that does remote control of sockets, but the killer feature is that it … Continue reading →

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