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...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
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...
CES 2017 Smart Home Wrap-Up
Every year thousands of visitors converge on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual exhibition for new technology products. 2017 marked the show’s 50th year and AppMyHome joined about 175,000 others to...
State of our Smart Home 2017
As we head into 2017, after more than three years on our journey to automate our home, it’s a good time to reflect about how far we have come and how the products have...
Solar-powered Smart Camera – the Ring Stick Up Cam
Around the same time we installed our mom’s Ring Pro doorbell, we decided we wanted to try out Ring’s portable, mountable security camera, the Ring Stick Up cam. As we have discussed before, we...
2016 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our third annual smart home holiday gift guide. As we get ready to start our fourth year of AppMyHome, it is really interesting to reflect how far we have come in home...