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Open-plan living room at dusk with cove lighting, a pendant and a floor lamp glowing against tall windows

Home & space automation

Everything in a home or office that can be automated.

With products where they exist, and hardware we build where they don't.

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What we automate

If it switches, turns, opens or records, it can join the system.

We supply the devices, set them up and make them work together. One room or the whole building.

See it room by room
  • A pleated floor lamp glowing warm among houseplants in the evening

    Lighting and scenes

    Dimming, colour and one-tap scenes.

  • A calm cream bedroom with a wall-mounted split air conditioner above the curtains

    Climate and AC

    Even units that only came with a remote.

  • Low golden sun through sheer linen curtains

    Curtains and blinds

    Motorised, on a schedule or a button.

  • A teak front door with a slim digital lock, lit steps and garden lights at dusk

    Locks, doorbells and gates

    See who is there and let them in.

  • A white security camera mounted on a warm textured wall

    Cameras with on-site detection

    Tells a person from a car, ignores the street.

  • Water tanks and pumps

    Tank level on your phone, pumps on a timer.

  • A drip line running through a raised bed of young plants

    Garden irrigation

    Watering on a schedule, skipped when it rains.

  • Solar cells catching warm low sun

    Energy and solar

    What the building uses, and what the panels make.

  • A media room with a ceiling projector, a screen wall and cove lighting in a coffered ceiling

    Home theatre and media

    One tap dims the room and starts the film.

  • A kitchen backsplash with a small wall display beside a kettle and an espresso machine

    Voice control

    Ask in plain sentences, timers included.

  • A hand pressing a minimal black wall control with a single dial

    Scene buttons and gesture cubes

    Turn a cube to dim the lights. No phone needed.

  • Sensors

    Doors, leaks, temperature and air quality.

  • Alerts

    A message when a tank runs low or a door stays open.

  • A hand tapping a wall-mounted touch panel on a tiled kitchen wall

    Family-friendly dashboards

    One simple screen, settings out of the way.

  • Secure remote access

    Check in from anywhere over an encrypted link.

  • A soldering iron touching a dark circuit board, a wisp of smoke rising

    Custom hardware

    Designed and built by us when no product fits.

Products and hardware

Proven products first. Our own hardware where they fall short.

A walnut front door beside a textured wall with a slim temperature display and a touch switch

Off the shelf

Proven products, working as one.

We choose devices with a good track record and make them work as one system, in one app. No juggling five apps for five brands.

Hands soldering a circuit board on a timber desk in warm light

Built for you

Hardware we design when nothing fits.

When nothing on the market does the job, we design the hardware, write the software and keep it updated. An appliance that only has a remote becomes a proper smart device, with a slider in the app.

Room by room

One system for the whole house.

A typical home and what we connect in it. A small server on site ties it together.

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Illustration. Every home is planned from its own walk-through.

  1. Lights

    Scenes for morning, evening and film night.

  2. Air conditioning

    Any temperature or fan speed, from bed or by voice.

  3. Curtains

    Open with the morning, close at dusk.

  4. Front door

    Lock, doorbell and gate on your phone.

  5. Cameras

    A detection zone at the gate. The street stays out of it.

  6. Water tank and pump

    Level on your phone, pump on a timer, an alert before it overflows.

  7. Garden

    Drip lines that water on a schedule.

  8. Media room

    One tap: lights down, screen on.

  9. The brain

    A small server on site runs it all and keeps recordings in the building.

For the family

One simple screen for the family.

Lights, climate and cameras in plain words. The settings stay with whoever runs the system.

Settings stay separate

Automations, devices and access live in a separate admin view, so nothing gets changed by accident.

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Cameras

Cameras that know a person from a passing car.

  • Detection runs on a small server in your building, not on someone else's cloud.

  • We draw a zone at the gate. Traffic on the street outside it is ignored.

  • Recording is sized to your storage, so nothing fills up unnoticed.

Custom hardware

No product for it? We build one.

A small board we design, assemble and program. It sends the appliance's own remote signals, so an old AC or a decorative light gets a proper slider in the app. We update it over Wi-Fi, and it lets us know if it goes offline.

  1. Before

    The remote it came with.

  2. Our board

    About the size of a matchbox, out of sight.

  3. After

    A real slider in the app.

How it works

From walk-through to hand-over.

  1. Step 1: Walk-through

    We visit, see how each room is used, and note what you'd like to stop doing by hand.

  2. Step 2: Design and quote

    A plan of devices, wiring and controls, with a written quote before anything is bought.

  3. Step 3: Supply and install

    We supply the devices and install them. Electrical work is done by a licensed electrician.

  4. Step 4: Hand over and support

    We show everyone how it works, keep it updated and get an alert if a device goes offline.

Tell us what you still get up to switch off.

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Prefer email? Write to info@thydarkhour.com with the rooms you have in mind.