Smart Home

At Vesternet we're always on the lookout for new product ranges and we test many, many products every year to see which devices will enhance our Smart Home systems.We're therefore pleased to announce that we've recently added the Innr Lighting range to the site after having had the products on our test systems for the past few months!We'll be...

Some time ago now we added the Athom Homey Home Automation Controller to the site and on paper this spherical wonder certainly appeared to tick a lot of boxes!We've had a couple of months now with Homey and been testing it in the background so we thought it was about time to give our thoughts on whether it meets those lofty design goals and ...

A few months ago we launched a new series of guides aimed at integrating different technologies together.This time we're focusing on the fantastic range of devices from Philips Hue - you'll recall that we're big fans of this lighting system and all of us at Vesternet use it in our own homes!Let's start by looking at how integrating Philips Hu...

This week Philips released a new range of White Hue LEDs. They've not made much noise about it, but I think they're pretty cool. The cool thing is that you can change their white colour from warm to cool - making them perfect for any place in the home.We have first stock available on the new Philips Hue White Ambience.Hue White Ambience - What...

If you're a regular reader you will have seen my two posts last week when we introduced the Nest and Philips Hue product ranges.Just over a week on, and those have really taken off, we've sold out at least once!In last week's post, I said that we planned to do the "Vesternet thing" and show how to use these new products with other systems. Af...

We're on a roll this week as months of work have finally paid off. We now offer the full Philips Hue Range, all in stock and ready to ship.The Philips Hue is a range of wireless LEDs - as the name suggests these are wireless controlled RGB LEDs that allow you to set them to all the colours in the rainbow. That's where they came from, but since...