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...
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Brilliant Smart Home Control: Our Review
When we first started our DIY automation journey back in 2013, we started replacing a lot of things in our home with Wi-Fi gadgets with companion smartphone apps. Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains links...
Living in a Test House
We have two different video doorbells installed right next to each other near our front door. When delivery people come to the door and see two different doorbells, they generally ignore them and knock...
CES 2021: Smart Home Insights
We’ve been heading to Las Vegas for CES for years to see the latest smart home technology. Every year we make our list, pack our bags and fly down, usually on Sunday or Monday,...
CES 2021: Top Home Tech Products
It’s hard to imagine that at this time last year, we had just returned from a week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. It turned out to be one of our last...
CEDIA Expo Virtual – DIY Smart Home
Watching YouTube and reading blogs are great for learning about current smart home technology, but to find out what’s coming next, there’s nothing better than a tradeshow to see the tech in person and...
Wyze: almost a complete smart home ecosystem
We started our journey with smart cameras outdoors with our first generation Skybell video doorbell. Since then, we tried the Sengled Snap outdoor camera that screws into a light outlet on the side of...
C by GE: the Evolution of Smart Home Lighting
With C by GE, GE Lighting, a Savant Company, is creating a new smart home ecosystem for the everyday consumer. Update September 15, 2021: C by GE products and their companion app are now...
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...
Best CES 2020 Smart Home Tech
Every year we head to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to search for the best new smart home tech. After miles of walking around the show and two after-hours special events, we...