2019 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our 2019 smart home holiday gift guide, our sixth edition. AppMyHome has been recommending technology gifts for everyone on your list since 2014. We are excited to share another set of ideas...
Author: Valerie Antkowiak
The Empty Booth
Bringing a smart home device into your life to help you is not just a time and money investment, it’s an emotional investment. Think about the emotional attachment people feel for a car or...
Smart Modular Outlets from Swidget
We are excited about making our whole home a platform with smart modular outlets from Swidget.
What happens when your smart home loses power?
Recently we were one of about 738,000 California households that lost power for a couple of days in Pacific Gas & Electric’s shutdown. We aren’t sure how many smart homes lost power. While we did...
Time to shut down our Wink Hub
After more than five years, it’s finally time to shut down our Wink Hub, one of our first smart home platforms. We’ve been loyal Wink users for years and have stayed with them throughout...
CEDIA Expo 2019 DIY Smart Home
We explore DIY Smart Home products and services at the CEDIA Expo, the premier event for home technology professionals. Throughout this story we link to our YouTube channel for videos directly from the show....
Smart Meal Delivery from Trifecta Nutrition
Meal planning has always been a challenge for us, which is why we love home meal kits. Cooking is ok, but figuring out what to eat, which day and how much can be exhausting,...
Rome: at home in Italy’s Capital
Last fall we made our fourth trip together to Rome. It’s nice to come back to a city that we know so well, yet we always find something new to discover. We always feel at...
Alexa in the House
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen so many people who used an App called FaceApp to upload their photos and see what they will look like when they are older. We saw...
Siena, home of the Palio
Siena, the home of the Palio, has held a special place in our hearts since Mark lived there in the fall of 2014. It’s a magical walled city in Tuscany, about an hour from...