My long weekend in the mountains wasn’t fully (or even mostly, come to think of it) for ‘pleasure’. Instead, I spent most of my waking hours fine-tuning the various elements of my existing ...

Perceptive Automation has updated Indigo, the intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X, to version 1.2, adding support for the PowerLinc USB home automation interface. For the first ...

Predicting the future is always risky, especially when it comes to technology. Remember the paperless office and the flying car? How about the electronic house that runs itself? Alas, paper still ...

X10 has been around for a long time. It’s the brand name for a set of wireless modules used to switch electrical devices in the home. There’s all kinds of different units (bulb sockets, electrical ...

Automating your home used to mean spending big bucks to get a specialized control system installed inside your walls, but that’s all changing. Simple DIY smart home gadgets are quickly becoming ...

[Russell] sent in a neat home automation project he’s been working on. Even though the project only has two devices so far, we can already see the potential of his project. Instead of the X10 standard ...

Looking to take the market for home automation devices – one that it has controlled in the consumer space for quite some time – Smarthome is officially launching products that incorporate its new ...

Wired's How-To Wiki dives into home automation, offering advice for beginning "smart house" hackers looking to take their homes to the future. The article focuses on the X10 standard for automation, ...

I had a few X10 products back in the day, but never got beyond turning my lava lamp on through a web page. Unlike my buddy Rich who was interviewed in the New York Times for his home automation ...

X10, whose website is the only place where animated gifs still remain king, just released a universal remote that can handle both X10’s home appliance controls as well as all your A/V gear in your ...