Wayne Du Bruyn

SA's electric vehicle market nearly doubled in the first quarter of this year. 544 cars sold in three months, up 97% on the same quarter last year. Autotrader logged a 220% spike in EV searches between March 2025 and March 2026. People are buying in, or at least thinking hard about it. Here's what I keep thinking about: most of those cars are going home to a house that has no idea what to do with them. Plugging an EV into a standard wall socket works. Sort of. It's slow, it ignores everything...

I had a client call me last month. Someone who’d bought a house with a DIY smart home already in it. By the time he called me, half of it didn’t work. This is the conversation I have more than any other.

Most clients never ask about the software. That's fair — you hired someone to handle it. But the tool that sits at the center of every KNX installation just received a significant update, and a few of the changes are worth understanding because they affect how your project gets built and what happens after handover. ETS6.4 was released in March 2026. If you've had a KNX installation done in the past few years, this is the software that was used to program it. Every device on your bus — every...