IMPORTANT: It should be noted that this web site contains my experiences from the work I have done in automation projects connected with my (and other peoples) property within the UK. It maybe illegal to perform the same in other countries.
General
This information is provided ‘as is’ with no acceptance of loss caused by using any of this information herein. Any information contained herein is used entirely at your own risk. You may injure (or even kill) yourself or other people. Or you may invalidate certain insurances. This is your risk and judgement.
Please make sure you understand the risks and dangers involved before you attempt any work. Particularly if it may break any local laws in your area , regulations of service providers or insurances.
Several topics discuss connection of items to dangerous services, such as mains electricity, and failure to understand the risks and dangers associated with this type of work may result in serious injury (or even death) to you personally, or anyone who comes into contact with your implementation.
If you are not sure, please contact a suitably qualified person before commencing any works. You are responsible for your actions, regardless of what I have described within this web site.
I have taken every precaution to ensure information presented via this web site is both legal, safe and practical for use with the UK. However, it is your final responsibility to make sure your activities are legal and safe for your region. Regulations change periodically and I may only update old material at my discretion.
Software
Any software made available via this web site is subject to usage regulations associated with each download. Either described with the download link, or within the download itself. By downloading and unpacking the files, you are agreeing to be bound be these specific regulations on use.
If you wish to re-distribute anything, please contact me. But generally please only link to my download pages here for downloads, this is so your user base always will get the latest versions.
Downloads are provided ‘as is’ and no warranty is available for their suitability or functionality.
Hardware
Several examples of ‘hardware’ are also included. Any item is considered ‘hardware’ if it physically exists in a form than can be touched by a person.
Again all examples are down to you ensuring that they are safe to use and do not contain any errors. No responsibility can be accepted to errors published with the use or implementation of any such hardware detailed on this site. Nor may it be used beyond its intended original use. If in doubt, contact me directly.
See the actual pages concerned for usage and licensing rights. Typically everything here is published for public use under GNU type licensing.
External Web Sites
While every attempt has been made to perform a ‘vetting’ of external web sites referenced from here. It is your responsibility to vet the site yourself and accept their terms of use. Sites may have changed after my original ‘inspection’.
External links are normally identified with the following icon: 
Acceptable Usage
You may leave comments to posts and articles, but please remember the following:
- Liable/slander of myself or other people/businesses will be removed.
- Advertising and product pushing will be removed.
- Spam filtering is active, along with captcha verification. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
- All comments need to be moderated by me before they will appear. This may take a few days for me to get around to it, especially if I’m away for whatever reason. I will try to always check at the weekend, if I don’t have access during the week.
- Comments with excessive external links will probably be picked up by the spam filter and removed. Links to your own Blogs, etc. will be verified. If a link fails, the comment maybe removed.
- IP blocking from known problem sources is active.
You may link to this site, or reference this site. Citations should be provided with a link to the original article please. Links for software downloads should be to the ‘download’ page of the file. This is because the file details may change, normally due to upgrades. Ping-backs are welcomed, along with RSS feeds, etc.
You may also rate certain articles, and this also subject to limitations:
- Cookies, IP addresses, etc. are used to block repeat voting.
- Bayesian statistics are used to ‘smooth’ the results to remove block voting.
- Voting of products is not supported and will be disabled from these types of posts.
Privacy Policy
Cookies
This site does use cookies to aid tracking of you around this site. They are not used by me for any purpose. They are purely to help the Blog system give you a better experience. They are also used to prevent you from rating pages more than once. And to help the site statistics systems.
As this site carries advertising from different sources, these may also use cookies. An example of this is the ‘Double Click DART’ cookie used by Google’s AdSense. More information and opt-out facilities are available on their web site here.
Clicking links to other sites, may provide cookies from these third party sites. I am not responsible for any cookies from external sites and it is your responsibility to vet these sites yourself.
IP Addresses
This site tracks all request IP addresses. These are used for various purposes, like limiting page rating and site statistics. Addresses are also used in the blocking of spam and un-wanted access in general, these ‘blocks’ are taken from standard ‘blacklist’ sites in automated processes.
Email Addresses
Email addresses are recorded for the purpose of comments and posts (if you have an account with me). If your email address looks suspicious, then it is possible your publication will be blocked.
I do not use your email address for correspondence, unless you contact me first (via email). Any correspondence by comments on this web site, remain as correspondence by comments and I will not email you directly unless you ask me to. And any address held in this Blogs databases is purely for records and they will not be used by me for any purpose (such as mail shots) or passed on to other companies or people.
Email addresses stored in this system are not made public by the standard systems I use here and can only be extracted from the database by system Administrators.
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