Last week AppMyHome attended the CEDIA Expo in San Diego, the annual gathering of professionals in the $14 billion home technology industry. This event has traditionally been targeted at high-end audio/visual providers but as...
Like most data geeks, we have been experimenting with tracking our sleep for years as part of our quest to be more healthy. Recently we heard about the Beautyrest Sleeptracker and decided to try...
When we first moved into our home and landscaped our garden, we included two fountains, one on the front porch and one outside our back window. Our development uses recycled water for landscaping, so...
When we got our very first Amazon Echo we weren’t sure exactly what to do with it. We had been looking for a speaker system to let us play music in our bedroom so...
Regular meditation doesn’t require any technology, but it can relieve stress, unleash creativity, and help you cope with all kinds of issues from addiction to cancer. But it doesn’t work at all if you...
As aspiring home chefs and fans of Top Chef and other cooking shows, we have been coveting a Vitamix for years. We have seen them demonstrated at Costco and other kitchen stores with someone...
Temperature can be one of the biggest challenges to falling and staying asleep. In the summer we kick off the covers and in the winter we hog them. Other than our Nest Thermostat, we...
It looks like another IoT product has outlived its useful life – today we discovered that our Sen.se Mother has gone offline. For the last few years, we have been using the Mother, a...
Since our recent story about GE smart switches and outlets, built by Jasco, we have received two more of their new products to test – the new Z-Wave Plus Smart Motion Sensor and the...
When you think about starting to automate your home, you may ask yourself, smart light bulbs or smart switches? While the market has evolved significantly since we began our journey at AppMyHome, one of...