Home Automation: January 2008 Archives
Amongst my recent box of goodies from Idratek was an outdoor sensor.
Continue reading Outdoor Sensor.
I thought I'd have a play with the new General Logic object and when reviewing my heating set up yesterday I spotted an opportunity.
Continue reading Using logic gate to inhibit heating.
Continue reading Quick HA Porn Fix.
I've mentioned I added radiator valve actuators to improve my heating control, so here's a walkthrough of the steps in Cortex to add them.
Continue reading Adding Zone Valves.
I haven't made any real effort to tune the heating control, but already I can feel the benefits of the tighter control.
Continue reading How's that heating going ?.
More Idratek install blogs are popping up
Continue reading More Blogs.
After some time with a simple heating control scheme I have now pretty much fully automated my central heating.
Continue reading Heating Control.
It's barely home automation but I've been experimenting with GU10 CFL energy saving light bulbs in the bathroom. After some extensive googling for reviews (not many) I settled on the Megaman brand and got a bunch to put into the bathroom - the thinking was that with 5 x 50W halogen it might be worthwhile.
Continue reading Using GU10 energy saving lights.