The days of having to get up from your sofa to access appliances are long gone. You can control your heating, lighting and even washing machine from an app on your smartphone with the right products.

Three years ago we heard about SwitchBot Curtain, a system that allows users to open and close their curtains either on a programmed schedule or by remote control. Well, the SwitchBot company is now ...

Automating your home makes everyday tasks easy to manage and saves time. Here a creator has built a fully automated voice-controlled window blind that works without WiFi or cloud services. As a result ...

Blinds Direct supplies roller blinds with a choice between manual chain controller or remote control – with the latter providing the choice between using a remote control or the Home Kit smart app. In ...

For far too long, automated shades have been a luxury that only a rare few have enjoyed. Even with DIY home automation tech becoming more and more common, installing blinds that will open or close at ...

Netatmo and roof window specialist Velux have joined forces for a new smart windows system that's compatible with Apple HomeKit. Velux Active with Netatmo is a plug-and-play smart home system that can ...

I was dredging my brain for interesting topics to cover and this vertical blind hack popped into my head. The page isn’t the prettiest, but it’s the hack that counts. The mechanism is constructed from ...