Automated Home
About this original series
AutomatedHome.com has been on the web for over a decade - Watch our Smart Home podcasts, bite sized interviews and videos to accompany our reviews of all the latest and greatest in Smart Home technology plus audio podcasts too.
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# Episodes
17 episodes -
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Episodes of Automated Home
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AH0017 - New Mac Mini and Plex
The brand new Apple Mac mini was released earlier this week. We connect it up to our AV system as the ultimate 1080p HiDef media streamer in conjunction with open source Plex software
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Release date
Mar 6, 2009
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Runtime
03:38
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AH0016 - The xPL Home Automation Protocol
This time we're joined by Ian Lowe and Mal Lansell of the xPL Project. We discuss how the open source Home Automation Protocol came about, how it aims to be the "glue" in your smart home setup and the variety of hardware that can talk to each other through the systems hub.
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Release date
Aug 5, 2008
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Runtime
43:50
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AH0015 - Apple Remote iPhone Application
We've updated the iPhone to V2.0 and installed a few apps to play with. Of most interest to Home Automators will be the new free Apple "Remote" application. Here's a quick two minute video tour showing just how quick and easy it is to install and use.
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Release date
Jul 10, 2008
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Runtime
02:27
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AH0014 - Perceptive Automation
Show AH0014 features an interview with Matt Bendiksen from Perceptive Automation. We talk about their home automation software solution for the Mac - Indigo. Even if you're not a OS X user there's plenty of interesting chat including the differences between X10 and Insteon hardware, what it's like being a developer of a home automation system and the potential of the iPhone and iPod touch as a smart home controller.
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Release date
Jul 3, 2008
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Runtime
36:22
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AH0013 - AlertMe
This time we talk to AlertMe.com co-founder and director Pilgrim Beart along with his Chief Design Engineer, Dr Amyas Phillips. We talk about the technical background that lead both men to work on one of the UKs most innovative security systems, discuss the architecture of the Zigbee mesh network and the Linux powered hub at the centre of the system.
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Release date
Jun 23, 2008
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Runtime
43:09
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AH0012 - Ian Dixon
This time we talk to Ian Dixon of theDigitalLifeStyle.com. Ian has been producing his podcast since 2005 and with over 150 shows under his belt already he's one of the UK's most prolific bloggers on the Digital Home. We chat about how he got interested in Media Centre, his Windows Home Server setup and his special relationship with Microsoft.
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Release date
Jun 16, 2008
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Runtime
54:12
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AH0011 - WebBrick
In the fifth and final of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we have a quick chat with Guy Reece from WebBrick. Guy talks about the hectic last 12 months for the company and how they are using their product to manage renewables and save energy in other intelligent home configurations. The WebBrick gateway uses standards based HTML so can be configured to output almost anything you require and support for DMX lighting control has just been added too.
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Release date
Jun 10, 2008
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Runtime
03:12
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AH0010 - Andy Stanford-Clark
Show AH0010 marks the first of our audio podcasts (shows 1-9 are all video content). In this hour long episode we interview "IBM Master Inventor", Dr Prof Andy Stanford-Clark. We talk to him about his work in industrial telemetry integration that's lead him into the world of home automation. We chat about his hi-tech home, his internet connected mouse trap and monitoring his domestic power consumtion via Twitter.
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Release date
Jun 5, 2008
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Runtime
55:00
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AH0009 - Cytech / Comfort Alarm - SHS2008
In the fourth of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we talk to Chiu Lu Yung from Cytech, manufacturers of the Comfort smart home security system. Chiu shows us round some of the new additions to the range, including the Z-Wave serial interface we announced last month. We also look at the new design of the door station as well as a biometric interface and a new CCTV option.
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Release date
May 30, 2008
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Runtime
03:22
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AH0008 - Sensible Heat - SHS2008
In the third of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we talk to Dave Robinson of Sensible Heat. Dave shows us round the new Web Manager, an embedded Linux PC heating controller. We also talk about the third party home automation companies interfacing to their technology and the reason this year in particular people are taking heating control more seriously than ever.
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Release date
May 28, 2008
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Runtime
05:39
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