Designed to make standard remote-controlled ceiling fans smart, the Bond Bridge by Olibra can integrate up to 6 fans with your connected home. Once added to Bond, these fans can be controlled with the Bond app on smartphones and tablets, enabling you to preserve your…
Aiming to offer voice-controllable LED smart lamps at an affordable price point, Aoycocr has launched a line of lighting that brings broad compatibility with the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant ecosystems, while also enabling Apple Siri Shortcuts control. These RGBW color lamps have been designed…
Smart outlets have become de riguer in modern homes, as they offer an express route to automating non-smart devices such as lamps, fans, and myriad other appliances. Moreover, their rapid adoption can largely be attributed to the integration of voice assistants, enabling the use of…
We won't take the time here to beat around the forsythia bush. So just how intelligent is a Zilker smart water timer? Let's do some Q & A to find out. Can it alert you to possible leaks? Check. Adjust itself based on the weather?…
Zeroing in on doorstep package theft, Amazon has partnered with garage door opener maker Chamberlain in the launch of the Amazon Key In-Garage Delivery service. Available now to Prime customers in 50 U.S. cities—including our home base of Austin, Texas—the service requires a Chamberlain myQ…
Smart plugs have become a staple in today’s connected home, and for good reason. They are perfect for converting standard table and floor lamps into smart lighting, controlling small appliances such as coffee makers and fans, and saving on energy consumption. This is the sweet…
Haiku Home fans and lights just got smarter. These high-end products from the home division of Big Ass Fans have been uplifted by new integrations with Google Assistant and the Google Home ecosystem. We just tried out the new voice-activation features with the Haiku L…
A cottage industry of app development around the Philips Hue family of smart LED lighting has produced a nice collection of software that runs on the popular Apple TV platform. Certainly, the native Hue smartphone app is always an option for lighting control, and remains…
With the recent launch of macOS Mojave, Apple has finally brought the Apple Home app and HomeKit accessory control to the Mac. The integration also enables Siri voice activation control for HomeKit on the Mac ecosystem for the first time, which may be a bigger…
Since the launch of Apple iOS 10 and the Home app, Apple TV devices have been stealth-like participants in the Apple HomeKit ecosystem as HomeKit hubs, but have never made an appearance in the Apple Home app itself. That all changed with the release this…
The cameras on our smartphones keep gaining in resolution and flexibility, but there is only so much manufacturers can do with optics given the extremely thin confines of the phone’s shell. That’s where the Moment line of smartphone accessory lenses enter the picture, with a…
Aiming to be more than a me-too response to the Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers, Apple has played its hand in the voice-activated speaker game in the form of the HomePod, a wireless speaker system announced at the 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in…
Ready to lose your front door keys? Take a look at our video on the ENTR Smart Door Lock Solution, a sveltely-designed smart-home product capable of controlling entry to your home through purely digital keys. Designed primarily for the European consumer market, these glossy black-and-white locks can be easily…
Advancing your home into the era of connected living can in some instances lead to getting disconnected―from your physical keys. This dichotomy is exemplified by the ENTR Smart Door Lock, a sveltely-designed smart-home product capable of controlling entry to your home through purely digital keys.…
In this video, we walk through unboxing and installation of the Yale Real Living Assure Lock with Bluetooth and Z-Wave in our smart-home labs. With this lock, Yale presents homeowners with what is arguably the broadest range of secure connected living usage models and smart-home…
The front door on today’s connected home has taken a turn for the better. By replacing the ubiquitous deadbolt with a key-free Yale Assure Lock with Bluetooth, consumers can simply twist their smartphone as they arrive to activate their digital key, and tap the check mark…
As we concluded our first full year of publication, it is apparent that smart-home technology is clearly front and center to you, members of our growing audience. In looking back at the big-data repository view of our publishing world for all of calendar year 2016, smart-home technology content…
On the heels of its launch of the DirectTV Now streaming service, AT&T is offering a number of deals for consumers considering moving their television viewing experience away from traditional cable or satellite TV services. The offers include a free Apple TV 4th Generation box (32…
Apple macOS aficionados have long enjoyed seamless data backup and recovery, thanks to the built-in Time Machine software. And when it was time to restore a single file or even an entire Macintosh, going back in time by scrolling deeper into a list of backups…
Making the journey from the predominantly-analog house to a digitized house can be accomplished through a series of baby steps. In fact, given the diversity of competing smart-home technology platforms and protocols, it may not make sense today to digitize your house in one fell…
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