Lowe’s Iris Shuts Down
We have used the Lowe’s Iris smart home hub on and off since 2014. We share our thoughts on the end of the Iris service. Yesterday Lowe’s notified us that Iris is closing their...
Category: Automation Hubs and Controllers
Smart hubs to control multiple devices and scenes in your home
Our 29 Favorite CES Smart Home Gadgets
We highlight our favorite CES smart home gadgets we are looking forward to exploring in 2019. Every year after we attend CES, everyone wants to know – what was the best thing you saw...
Wire-Free Smart Lighting from ThirdReality
We review ThirdReality’s wire-free smart lighting products: the RealitySwitch, RealityLight and RealityAdapter smart home lighting products. A few years ago we made the decision to install Z-Wave smart outlets and switches throughout our house,...
Our Mother has gone offline
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...
Smart Home Control with the Wink Hub 2
We purchased our first Wink smart home Hub in 2014, from Home Depot, not too long after it first became available. At the time we had been experimenting with other smart home hubs, including...
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
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...
Lowe’s Iris Next Gen Home Hub – Not Ready
We bought our original Iris home hub from back in 2014 and have been using it since then to control a subset of our home devices. We were originally excited to have a hub...
Some quick smart home additions with WeMo and Alexa
When we first started automating our home a few years ago, one of the first devices we bought was a Wemo plug-in wall outlet. The device is so simple to use to make anything...
2015 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our second annual smart home holiday gift guide. 2015 has been a big year for DIY home automation, with a lot of changes since last holiday season. You can see it immediately...