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While you wait for your HiFi to come with Bluetooth built-in, here's an inexpensive little gadget that might just make your day. The Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver plugs into any mini-jack or RCA phono input and will play your toons from your smartphone, wirelessly to your HiFi. Watch movies on your Laptop? How about beaming the sound to the Fi - or 101 other smart home uses you can think of. Best of all it's currently available at less that half it's RRP, a knock-down £18.
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If you were looking for a global player powerful enough to enter the Home Automation space and finally create a universal standard I guess Google may be near the top of your list.
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Yesterdays announcement that Google have arrived in the Home Automation world continues to make waves. This morning Engadget have got their hands on some of the wireless LED bulbs show in the demos and have revealed some interesting details about them.
Among the specs it's emerged that the system uses 900MHz - which is currently a mobile phone band in the UK. However it's pretty normal practice to have different frequencies for different countries (as with wireless X10 products for example) so this shouldn't stop the products making their way to Europe and beyond in the future.
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We've always been fascinated by the energy harvesting wireless sensor technology from EnOcean. The bidirectional self-powered 'green' devices do away with the need for cable in your walls for either power or bus signals.
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CUE designs and manufactures IP-based integration systems with control panels and has just launches two new touchscreens that are ideal for home automation applications.
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Schneider Electric, the UK distributors of Clipsal C-Bus products, tell us they are hoping to launch the new C-Touch C-5000CT2 Spectrum Touchscreen next month.
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Home automation has acquired a more legitimate mantel in recent years, helping lose its reputation as merely promoting a couch potato lifestyle. Tasked with helping us all monitor, measure and change our energy usage, manufacturers like Z-Wave have been quick to see the potential of the green market for their smart home products. Here's the latest range from GreenWave Reality, giving users access to detailed electricity, gas and water consumption data as well as electric vehicle charging and time of day pricing.
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This is my kitchen island, below is an unfinished utility/storage room. A hydraulic scissor lift is at bolted to the cement, and then a small frame is built on top of the scissor lift table. On top of that is a subfloor, flooring, and then the island. The cabinet doors are on the other side, and have safety push button switches that kill the electricity from the Smart Home Insteon switches, and prevent it from moving when the doors are not fully closed. This lift can easily lift over 1,500lbs, so it was an important safety feature! Please comment if you are interested in seeing the inner workings of this.
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[Tim] is showing off the first step in his home automation projected with this smart-phone garage door interface. In the video after the break you can see him open and close the garage door with the touch of a button.
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Let there be light - and sound. Here's a neat way to easily retro-fit a concealed speaker for music or perhaps voice announcements in your home automation set-up. The Audio Light Bulb fits into, and is powered by, a lamp socket. The built in 10 watt wireless speaker provides the sound while LEDs produce replacement light equivalent to around a 60w incandescent. The $299 unit is due to start shipping next month...
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See the Haiku app controlling a HAI home automation system in real time. There are multiple iPad/iPhone/iTouch apps on the market that will control our autom...
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Automated Home readers have long followed (and installed) the Clipsal C-Bus system. Here's an interesting video tour ...
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[Mirko] is working on a library that will allow you to add RF control to just about any device. The only requirement is that the device be capable of running a Linux kernel, and that it have a few GPIO pins available. One example is fairly straight forward, a Netgear router.
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Crestron have updated their 'Crestron Mobile' and 'Crestron Mobile Pro' apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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As seen in the streaming of Google IO 2011, physical computing and interactive enviroments are one of the main topics opening the conference.
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We reported on this 13A mains wall socket with built-in USB last year at £14.99. Now they appear to be on offer for just £3.99 'while stocks last'.
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Well the Ycombinator-backed Lockitron aims to replace physical keys entirely by letting you control your door lock with your phone. The Lockitron web app and hardware package are as of today available for general users, for a one time fee of between $295 to $500.
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DomoticHome is a simple and lowcost way to bring some smartness in your home with 50$ :). This project is still in beta test. For more details Arduino Forum
What do you need to work out DomoticHome? An Arduino with Ethernet shield, an Android device and some electronic skills. More devices will be added soon if you have any reqeust drop down 2 lines at us or compile the form here.
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We all know how great an iPad looks mounted on a wall and it's a peach of a home automation touchscreen controller.
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The new Marmitek Connect420 connects up to 5 HDMI devices to your TV and supports full 1080p 3D as well as traditional 2D setups. The unit can switch automatically based on source or with included remote control and the metal casing means the switcher is free from any interference.
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We often hear complaints about the lack of Z-Wave modules available in the UK. Now home automationspecialist eTailer, Vesternet have just added a new Z-Wave USB stick to their catalogue. The £49.99 plug and play transceiver comes with on board drivers and a Z-Wave application for managing devices.
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This months My Automated Home feature comes from Tom Lawrence, a final year student at Staffordshire University. Along with his friend Andy Jackson, he has created a bespoke C# home automation system which controls X10 and XBMC with clients for Android and Windows Phone.
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Square Connect, a member of the Z-Wave have broken the mouild with their new 'wooden puck' device for infrared controlled home entertainment. A new version of the Blaster, the “Blaster Pro” integrates Z-Wave, allowing expansion of the control sphere beyond the home theatre to include lighting, window shades and other appliances. The SQ Blaster range of products utilise the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as control interfaces, with applications for other smart phones and tablet devices under development.
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