<![CDATA[n n Energy prices may be rising but that doesn’t mean your bill has to!  n Over the last 12 months, or more, the wholesale cost of gas and electricity has gone through the roof and it’s become increasingly difficult to find a great energy deal like we once could, be that by changing energy…

I wouldn’t be writing this if Dante was built in Blackmagic!  Over the years I’ve had a few ideas on how to get Dante working with ATEM Vision mixers and after my recent article, I thought I’d go through some of my ideas for getting Dante’s audio into an ATEM switcher and what’s changed to…

<![CDATA[n Where’s The ATEM 4M/E Constellation 4K?  n n Just before NAB Blackmagic let us know about some new products they are releasing and boy was I excited. I’m only going to dive into 2 of these today though, The Constellation HD and the Cloud Store. I’m kind of disappointed by one and Would love…

<![CDATA[n n Too Expensive or Just not for you?  n So I’m a little behind the times with this post, between trying and failing to restore the website (after a massive mistake on my part), working what feels like every hour of the day or getting ready to have a little one entering our lives…

<![CDATA[n Accidental Smart Home Week – Part 3nTo finish out what has somehow become Smart Home week I thought I’d look at some of the available Smart Home appliances that I may be able to integrate into our smart home in the future. I’ve already tried to add a few extra things to our home…

<![CDATA[n Part 2 of Accidental Smart Home WeeknIn my last post, I had a look at different energy monitoring solutions that would work with Home Assistants new Energy tab. I thought I’d continue the smart home theme this week by exploring how I can upgrade our smart home past the smart bulbs and smart plugs…

<![CDATA[n It’s about time I figured out where we use all our energynIt’s been a busy week where I’ve learned a lot and slept just as much. Starting a new job is always tiring, there is a lot to learn in a short space of time. Due to the nature of my new job I’ve…

<![CDATA[n It’s time to get out my non-existent Credit Card… Again!  n As I mentioned in my last post, Blackmagic recently released a bunch of new products, I also mentioned that I’d be updating my kit list to include these new products… and here it is. This post took me a bit longer than usual as…

<![CDATA[n A lot was announced in a short amount of time  n Last Thursday Blackmagic Design had a live stream where they released some new products for both HD and 4K Live production workflows. As has become the norm, as I watch the live stream I was constantly thinking “I Wants all of these!”. So…

<![CDATA[n You can have a Smart Home with Privacy  n I mentioned in a previous post that I’d moved my Home Assistant installation over to a Raspberry Pi from my ageing Mac mini. I thought that I’d go into a little bit of detail about setting up and what we currently have in our smart home and…