What is this Home Automation stuff anyway?

At the start of 2022, Rocky and I bought a new home and moved in. (It’s 15 years old but it’s new to us.) To say it was rather devoid of technology was an understatement. It was almost entirely devoid of *lighting*, FFS! We’ve spent the year thus far making it a comfortable little “tech …

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How To Install An Un-Signed 3rd Party Driver in Windows 8

Here’s a shameless re-post of someone else’s great work. I’m just adding some references to Arduino and Clipsal C-Gate, Toolkit and PACA in the hope that a search engine will help guide others in similar circumstances to the fix. Arduino Driver I’m tinkering with a little Lync project to add a real-world “telemetry-style” interface to …

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C-ChangePHP 2012 update

Whoops: Download file updated on May15th. The initial May 13th build used “short tags” in some sections. Now resolved.   With 4 days to go until the first birthday of my C-ChangePHP, I’m celebrating it early by releasing an update to “v2”. This release fixes a few things that broke in iOS5, and adds a …

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A customisable web interface for C-Bus

UPDATED 16th MAY 2011 – download the source from this post. UPDATED 13th MAY 2012 – have a look at the update to C-ChangePHP in this post. I was an early adopter of Clipsal’s C-Bus building automation system, adding a small installation to our cosy circa-1917 semi back in 1999. Initially we had a grand …

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