Overview Smart Plugs are one of the most basic building blocks of a smart home. The good news is that there are a ton of them on the market, but the bad news is that there are a TON of them on the market. The challenge is finding one that is the best for you…
I have been looking for a GarageDoor control for years to add to my smart home. I can’t tell you how many times I have gotten to the store or work and wondered if I had left the garage door open. A remote opener would be a perfect way to solve this issue but there…
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As I recommended in my Smart Home: Overview post, the Philips Hue system should be one of your first purchases if you are building a smart home. The system is definitely pricey, but it is stable & well integrated into all of the main smartphone platforms where you can enable voice control as well as…
Although I now have plenty of smart home devices, I would say that I started out as a skeptic. A lot of my reasoning came down to “It’s not that hard to just [walk over and flip the switch, run upstairs and check the windows, walk over to the thermostat, etc] now, so why would…
I have been using iPads since the original one came out in 2010. iPads were primarily a secondary device – check email, browse the web, and watch movies on vacations – but that always meant I needed a laptop to do anything that required creating something. This all changed with the iPad Pro and the…