Smart Home Security with Konnected
Update July 22, 2020: This is our review of the original Konnected Alarm Panel that launched on Kickstarter. Read our review of the Konnected Alarm Panel v2. After we began our journey to automate our...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
2017 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our fourth annual smart home holiday gift guide. As we reflect on the past year, it feels like the smart home market has continued to evolve with mostly incremental innovations from the...
Smart Comfort with Haiku Fans
Update July 16, 2019 – Big Ass Fans has discontinued the separate Haiku Home branding but still sells the Haiku and entry-level Haiku L Series fans through their Big Ass Fans Home residential line of...
Smart Home Cooking Challenge: Blue Apron
UPDATE March 1, 2026: Blue Apron has gone through an extensive re-brand and now offers meal kits, ready-made and other options without a subscription. Check out their new offerings and read our updated review. For...
SkyBell HD – Smart Doorbell
Update April 17, 2020: We retired our Skybell after using three generations of the product. While the Skybell HD is still available through some third-party sellers on Amazon, it appears the best way to...
Smart Home Cooking with Terra’s Kitchen
Update April 17, 2020: Terra’s Kitchen filed for bankruptcy in September 2019. Check out our latest meal kit comparison. Our latest experiment with smart home packaged cooking kits is Terra’s Kitchen. When we saw the...
Smart Home Cooking with Home Chef
Update April 17, 2020: We reviewed Home Chef in 2015. Read our most recent meal service comparison. We continue our review of some of the the latest home delivery meal-kit services with Home Chef....
Smart Home Security with the Cujo Smart Firewall
Update April 17, 2020: Cujo AI discontinued the CUJO AI smart firewall at the end of 2017. If you are using smart home devices, we recommend you consider securing your home network, either through...
MySmartBlinds adds window automation
Update April 16, 2020: MySmartBlinds is now Tilt by SmarterHome, with an expanded line of smart home products. We are still using our MySmartBlinds retrofit kit, and it was one of the only products...
Smart Home Control with the Wink Hub 2
Update April 16, 2020: We no longer use our Wink Hub 2. Read why here. We purchased our first Wink smart home Hub in 2014, from Home Depot, not too long after it first...