Take control of your home internet service
We believe that a strong, secure home network is the foundation for any smart home. When did you get your home Internet service installed? When you moved in? How long ago was that? Have...
Category: Home Network
Home networking products to connect and secure your devices inside and outside the home.
Our Journey with SmartThings
Update December 13, 2021: Samsung no longer builds the SmartThings Hub, but the app is still up to date and working well. Aeotec now sells the current version of the SmartThings Hub. Over the...
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...
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...
Local Smart Home Control with Zipato
Update April 16, 2020: we no longer use our Zipabox smart home hub. Zipato continues to expand their product line and we visit them every year at CEDIA and CES. Over the last couple...
A Mother for our Smart Home
As of July 2018 our Mother is now out of service. She served us well over the years and we will miss her. You may still see some for sale in various channels, but they won’t...
Which Smart Home Platform is Right for You?
Update April 17, 2020: Lowe’s Iris and Staples Connect are no longer in service, and we stopped using Wink. We are still using SmartThings (now at version 3.0). When we first started our experiments...