Launching this new blog

Why another blog?

Over the years the promise of an automated home looked as though it may be fulfilled, and then I have been disappointed. We organised three HomeCamp's where great technology, both hard and soft was shown, discussed and demonstrated, but each area is still mostly a silo and mixing & matching is difficult and expensive. 

I now feel things are coming together again, so I am starting this blog to record my experience.

Having just met the OpenTRV team, I am full of renewed enthusiasm. I printed some of the cases for the Rev2 Big Red Button OpenTRV unit as part of the TVRRUG and now have a Conrad valve to connect to the tinkering board I received earlier.

The OpenTRV team are looking for lots of feedback and development help, they recognise that their communications are spread around and there is no connecting resource and are working to improve this. Hopefully this blog will help those on a similar journey to me.

I am thinking this may lead to an OpenHomeCamp in the autumn where we can meet up again.