Miele@Home Con@ctivity, Or how to fully automate your kitchen.

The Miele line of household appliances is offering connectivity over power line. Some use case is simple things like starting the kitchen fan when the stove in on. Start oven from the mobile etc. Mieles system is communicating over powerline technology (that I have had some challenges with earlier http://868mhz.blogspot.fi/search/label/Powerline) What I just learned is that is seems like Miele is communicating with XML so something like Vera home automation gateway could control your kitchen, in theory. I hope somebody will play with this and let the rest of us know the result.

There is some more reference info here:

http://www.miele.co.uk/Resources/OperatingInstructions/XKM%202000%20DA_Conn@ctivity_Installation.pdf

http://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2328&start=0

Dilbert does home automation

Z-Wave Gateway Zipabox-G1 by Zipato

 

I received an email where they ‘promise’ that this new Z-wave gateway “automatically starts talking to all connected devices in the house and connects them to the cloud so that the user can control them using tablets, smart phones, computers or TVs”. Not a bad promise! If only some of it was true. But probably a very good gateway that more technically supports both Z-wave and Zigbee.

Visit for example  http://store.zwaveeurope.com/product_info.php?products_id=12254&XTCsid=9b4cf0c6b5bac03eaf1488b49abd15f0 for some more details and a price.