We built on existing research to develop a prototype home-hub that builds upon an extended domestic router capable of capturing a diverse collection of information in the home of 5 members of the project. Existing approaches to home automating have often proffered the use of home hubs as central points of control (e.g. Intel Home or Microsoft HomeOs) within their visions of a future home. However, we believe that the home hub is much more likely to arrive in the home setting in a piecemeal fashion. Consequently, we adopt an evolutionary approach, to supplement the existing technologies in the home based on existing Digital Economy research in the Homework project. To supplement this quantitative data we used ethnographic methods including technology tours, diary studies, experience sampling as well as a range of in-situ studies.