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...
Category: Insights
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...
CES 2020: Smart Home Insights
2020 marked our fourth consecutive year at CES in Las Vegas. Year after year, it is still the best place to see what is new in the technology world and we found plenty of...
Insights from the 2019 Smart Home Summit
We recently had the opportunity to attend the Smart Home Summit, an intimate gathering of smart home leaders in San Francisco. Through two days of great presentations and networking, it was hard for us...
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...
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...