Soon available for Linux and Macintosh

We are thrilled to let you know that we are working on a major update of the Dragstone home automation system. All new features will be revealed later on but for now I can say that we are moving to .Net Core for the code. This means the following: The Dragstone home...

New feature: randomized timings in PulseTrigger

We added a useful feature in the PulseTrigger plugin that we call RandomizeTiming. This feature makes it possible to add randomization to the timings of the plugin. The value is a percentage that describes how far (before or after) the standard timing every new...

SendMail plugin is ready

Now it is possible to send mail via a plugin. This Dragstone plugin should have been made a long time ago but more important features got in the way. But now it’s finally here, ready to be downloaded. And it is of course totally free to download and use!

New Command plugin

Another smaller release follows last week release of 2 new plugins. This week we have a plugin we named Command although we could have named it Run, Execute or similar; they are all very descriptive names for what the plugin does. Command lets Dragstone run external...

Two new plugins

After the update to the Gate plugin earlier this week we decided to release two completely new plugins. The DayGate and the TimeGate is a new addition to the gate family of plugins that will give you even more control of the logic flow in the Dragstone application....

New functionality for the Gate plugin

We have added some functionality to the Gate plugin to make it even more useful. In the settings dialogue you will now find 3 options named “Lock 1 AutoClose”, “Lock 2 AutoClose” and  “Lock 3 AutoClose”. Previously the gate plugin...

Are you into weather stations?

We just released a plugin that talks to the ControlByWeb X-320M web-enabled weather station controller. By connecting your favourite weather sensor hardware to this unit you could now control it from the Dragstone Home automation platform. Head over to the plugin page...

Philips Hue Controller released

Now the owners of a Philips Hue system can control it in the Dragstone environment. Individual light sources as well as scenes and groups (rooms) can be altered. And it is of course totally free to download and use! Head over to the Philips Hue Controller plugin page...

RFXtrx is now available

We are proud to announce that the RFXtrx plugin is now ready for download and as usual it’s all free to use! With this plugin, and of course with the correct hardware from RFXCOM, you will now be able to use hardware that operates via the 433MHz frequency band....