Going Solar Part 4 – I Measure Every 24/7 Electrical Device in the Automated Home
As we mentioned in Part 2, the Automated Home’s base line energy consumption is terrible. There’s no point creating all this energy and then throwing it…
January 2017
Video: Stringify is IFTTT Alternative Smart Home Controller in the Cloud
Most people have heard of IFTTT by now, but perhaps not Stringify. Stringify provides a multi-step logic controller in the Cloud and works with more than 500 products…
Review: Did I Return My Bragi Bluetooth Wireless ‘The Headphone’
Bragi are known for their incredibly successful $3.4m Kickstarter campaign that launched their original Dash wireless headphones back in 2014. However they are also known for…
7 Smart Home Videos from CES 2017
Here are a few interesting smart home tech videos from last weeks CES. It’s hard to find one that doesn’t feature Amazon Alexa and of course…
Mini Review: The Sengled Pusle LED Bulb + JBL Speaker
The guys from Sengled sent us over their ‘Pulse’ lights with built-in Wireless Speakers to try in the Automated Home. The Pulse uses an energy…
Video: Home Automation in 2017 Means “Talking IP in the Cloud”
CNET held an interesting Smart Home discussion during last weeks CES. The panel was made up of industry insiders from SmartThings, Amazon Echo, Google Home and August…
Top 20 Automated Home Posts of the Year 2016
2016 has been an interesting year, even the complicated world of Smarthome tech has been easier to follow than the politics. Before we start, here’s a special…