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• The future’s bright, the future’s RED, Node-RED
  on Apr 10, 2014 in General Home Automation MQTT xAP floorplan ha home automation mosquitto mqtt node-red node.js raspberry pi rss weather xap xml
  How I am beginning to use Node-RED (based on Node.js and MQTT) in my Home Automation system, taking over processing BBC Weather RSS feeds that are currently handled by legacy xAP applications!
• Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed!
  on Mar 2, 2014 in General Home Automation Z-Wave fibaro ha home automation lighting micasaverde rgb led rgbw vera z-wave
  Using a Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to automate RGB LED Lighting Strips for my presence detecting stairway lighting!
• Daddy, the garden gate is open again – Visonic, RFXCom, xPLRFX and xAP Floorplan, a technological solution to a behavioural problem :-)
  on Feb 10, 2014 in General Home Automation xAP xPL door sensor floorplan ha home automation rfxcom visonic xap xap floorplan xpl
  Using a mixture of Home Automation technologies, including xPL, xAP, Visonic and RFXCom, to send alerts when my garden gate is left open at night!
• Stairway Lighting – Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to the rescue, another job jobbed!
  on Feb 2, 2014 in General Home Automation Z-Wave fibaro ha home automation lighting micasaverde rgb led rgbw vera z-wave
  Using a Fibaro Z-Wave RGBW Controller to automate RGB LED Lighting Strips for my presence detecting stairway lighting!
• Project Disco Stairway Lighting Is A Go – xAP, Arduino and WS2801 5050 RGB LED Light Strip Prototype
  on Jan 22, 2014 in Arduino Home Automation xAP arduino floorplan ha home automation jeelabs lighting rgb led rgb led strip ws2801 xap xap floorplan
  Developing a prototype Stairway RGB LED Lighting controller based on the xAP Home Automation protocol, using an Arduino, FastSPILED2 and WS2801 5050 RGB LED Light strip!
• I Like Big Butts – Monitoring Water Butts With Visonic, RFXCom, xPL And xAP Floorplan
  on Jan 13, 2014 in General Home Automation xAP xPL energy saving floorplan ha home automation magnetic contact sensor rfxcom visonic water butt xap xpl xplrfx
  How I monitor Water Butts and get alerts when they are full using a mixture of Home Automation technologies, including xPL, xAP, Visonic and RFXCom!
• Fibaro Universal Door & Window Sensor plus Pressure Mat equals Stairway To Heaven :-)
  on Jan 4, 2014 in General Home Automation xAP Z-Wave fibaro floorplan ha home automation lighting micasaverde rgb led vera visonic xap z-wave
  So a couple of weeks ago I started to look in earnest at a “stairway lighting” project that has been on my to-do list for a number of years.  After running this project through the 10 Home Automation Commandments, I decided to break it u...
• xAP Speedtest – Internet Speed Monitoring (I Love It When A Plan Comes Together!)
  on Dec 22, 2013 in Home Automation Internet Monitoring Networking xAP emoncms floorplan ha home automation linux monitoring mysql networking perl python speed test xap
  For many years now I’ve been using the excellent JD’s Auto Speed Tester (or JDAST) software for monitoring my Internet connection.  It’s a fantastic tool for performing regular Internet speed tests in the background and logging all...
• RGB, RGBW, Digital RGB, Arduino, Z-Wave, XBee / ZigBee, Raspberry Pi, JeeNode…….decisions, decisions!
  on Dec 15, 2013 in General Home Automation arduino fibaro ha home automation home easy homeeasy micasaverde micasaverde vera raspberry pi rgb led vera visonic xap xpl z-wave
  I dabbled with RGB LED strips three or four years ago and used some simple “warm white” ones for our kitchen under cupboard lighting (I still have a blog post planned for that!) and some “cool white” ones for my work bench in...
• Automatic loft lighting using Vera and Fibaro
  on Dec 9, 2013 in Home Automation xAP Z-Wave bye bye standby byron fibaro ha home automation home easy homeeasy lighting lights lightwaverf logitech magnetic contact sensor micasaverde mk grid plus nslu2 openz-wave relay sonos vera visonic xap z-wave
  I started my journey with Z-Wave many moons ago, a Linksys NSLU2 aka “Slug” and a TrickleStar USB adapter using the OpenZ-Wave stack and some HomePro devices dumping me right in at the deep end! Unfortunately at that time, OpenZ-Wave was...

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