Monthly Archive: May 2015

Humax HDR 1100 Freesat Recorder 1

Humax HDR 1100 Freesat Recorder

Back in January we cancelled our Sky subscription and replaced the Sky receiver with a Humax 1100, after the initial excitement of getting the box, and finding out that it can be controlled with...

Loxone Config 6.4.5.20 is here! 0

Loxone Config 6.4.5.20 is here!

With a full list of changes to the config software, though I don’t think there’s much that affects either my install, or my customer’s setups, unlike the previous update 6.4.5.12 LOXONE CONFIG 6.4.5.20 Fixed...

New Heating System, New Cabinet 0

New Heating System, New Cabinet

Well several days of setup and configuration, and we now have a mains pressurised heating system, controlled from the Loxone. The new cabinet has very little in it so far, a Multi Extension Air,...

Taking Home Automation For Granted 0

Taking Home Automation For Granted

Over the weekend we had some friends over who are pretty into their technology, it was the first time they’d been to the house and seeing what we’ve done so far. There are times...

Look Ma, No Wires!!! 0

Look Ma, No Wires!!!

A familiar knock at the door from the UPS man, and i have another box of Loxone goodies! Air products seem to be the way forward, well at least that seems to be where...

Does the perfect low power video streaming device exist? 0

Does the perfect low power video streaming device exist?

Since we cut the cord on subscription TV (Sky), we’ve moved to streaming services. Initially it wasn’t a problem, as our Sony TV supported both services. However recently Sony discontinued support of Microsoft Silverlight...