This is a bit geeky but neat nonetheless. But if tech turns you off move on.

I’ve been experimenting with home automation during the past 12 months or so, and have been connecting all sorts of devices to the internet so that I can monitor stuff around my home via an internet connection. With the addition of fairly low cost computer intelligent it should be possible to maintain a physical space at the optimum conditions and save energy.

We’re in the process of renovating an old farmhouse in Northumberland and I’m hoping that the house’s ability to monitor and intelligently make changes to the humidity, heating and lighting conditions based on the physical environment will be a key element of the design. It should also cut energy bills.

In the meantime its been hot in London this week. But how hot?

There’s a couple of lines of java code behind this web page linked via the internet to a server in San Francisco which is polling box of tricks in SE1 and reporting live on the outside temperature: and the humity: .

I said it was hot in London. I also said that this was geeky.

Update 3 July: London’s cooling down. Temperature can go down as well as up.