Home Automation with SmartThings and ActionTiles

ActionTiles Smart Home Automation - Information Panel

Do press the shiny red (ActionTiles) button! Moving further down the road of my smart home automation insanity, I’ve started looking for a panel to control things around the home. The paradigm I was looking for is not very different from a home security alarm control panel. I wanted a wall mountable or tabletop touch […]

Home Automation Solution Mapping

Home Automation and Smart Home

Home Automation, or has my house become self-aware? SkyNet Be Damned! I’ve been playing around with Home Automation and SmartHome IoT technology for a couple of months and went searching for a way to map out all the connections, dependencies and devices in the house. I tripped across SmartHomeDB on my twitter feed and gave […]

Summer Travel: Australia and New Zealand

The Glamor of Business Travel

Fixin’ to get ready It’s looking like I’ll be doing some (work) summer travel this month, heading down to Australia and New Zealand. This is a long, whirlwind trip, a couple days in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand; a few days in Sydney and Canberra, Australia then the long haul back home. With any luck […]