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...
Category: Automation Hubs and Controllers
Smart hubs to control multiple devices and scenes in your home
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...
Smart Home with Amazon Echo
The first time we heard about the Amazon Echo was about this time last year when a colleague shared this video. Even after watching the more serious version, we were a bit puzzled. What...
Kevo Plus – Smart Lock adds Internet
We have been using our Kwikset Kevo since early 2014. It was one of the first smart home locks on the market and it appealed to us since we already had Kwiksets in our...
Local Smart Home Control with Zipato
Over the last couple of years, we have tested several of the leading smart home hubs available in the US, including Iris, Smart Things, Staples Connect, and Wink (and compared them in November 2014). While...