CES 2022: Smart Home Insights
We made it to Las Vegas for our first in-person Consumer Electronics Show since 2020. We’ve been attending CES pretty regularly since 2015, and it remains the best place to see all the latest...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
2021 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our eighth annual smart home holiday gift guide. We started recommending smart home gifts to our readers back in 2014, when Siri was restricted to phones and tablets and Alexa was a...
DIY Home Security: Moving Inside
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home. Depending on your comfort level in your home and with technology, protecting the perimeter with a video doorbell, a smart lock,...
DIY Home Security: Protect the Perimeter
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home Now that you’ve learned a bit more about DIY smart home security in parts one and two of our series, let’s...
Is Full DIY Home Security for you?
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home Part 2: Protecting what’s Important We started our DIY smart home journey by adding technology for convenience before we started thinking...
DIY Home Security Insights
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home. Part 1: Introduction Security is very personal, it can have a lot to do with your upbringing, where you live, and...
Best Alexa devices for every room: Our 2021 guide
We got our first Amazon Echo in late 2015. By that time, we’d already been buying smart devices and blogging about them for a few years, but everything we used was controlled by an...
Temperature sensors and soil moisture meters – at home and at a family-owned winery
We test the Zynect temperature sensor and soil moisture meter at home and with a family-owned winery. As technology geeks, we’ve always been fascinated with sensors and actionable data. We bought some of the...
Smart Water Leak Detector: Flume Water Monitor
Water leak detection is an industry with millions of dollars at stake. Water damage is one of the top claims on homeowners insurance, and it’s usually not from natural disasters; it’s from preventable things...
Redfin: Ways to Fortify your Home without an Alarm
Redfin featured AppMyHome on their blog featuring tips about home security: read the article.