Dorr bell with built in Camera

Im not sure if my visitors would understand to press this round thing, but it's a good concept to re-use the power lines today and run a camera also there.
http://www.idoorcam.com/

Extend the range on your Vera z-wave network (and ruin the warranty)

Found a interesting post in foreign language how to extend the Z-wave network and install a external antenna on your Vera and Vera lite.
They even links to the right parts in Ebay.
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/teknik/201788-z-wave-da-haus-hemautomation.html#post1791459

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300700727389
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300382080567

Internet of Things

Martin at  http://harizanov.com/ has ton’s of things connected to the internet. With nice pictures of his projects. How about this web-server with built in thermometer?

And I especially would like to push for this post about the solar powered transmitter:

http://harizanov.com/2012/08/solar-funky/

Move your Raspberry Pi from SD card to USB

How to move your Raspberry Pi from SD card to USB

http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/index.php/2013/04/13/moving-raspberry-pi-root-folders-from-sd-card-to-usb-hdd/

That’s it!, now I don’t need to search for this link any more

Open Energy Monitor.

A lot of activity around measuring things for a low costs is available at the openenergymonitor site

http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/

if your combining some skills of soldering, arduino, raspberry pi and or the micasaverde vera you have a neat package to measure areas like air quality and power usage.

Revolv shows how to integrate Google Glass with your Home Automation.

 

A nice demo of the features that you can do, like playing music on your Sonos. Lock the door and control the lights. All voice controlled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XuWbRwZd2IA

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