Smart Home Tour: Behind the Scenes at AppMyHome
Our friend and fellow creator Brandon Doyle came through California on his Tesla road trip and stopped to take a tour of our smart home. We had a great time showing him around and...
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Is Full DIY Home Security for you?
Our series on DIY home security systems we’ve tested in our own home Part 2: Protecting what’s Important We started our DIY smart home journey by adding technology for convenience before we started thinking...
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...
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...
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...
CEDIA Expo 2019 DIY Smart Home
We explore DIY Smart Home products and services at the CEDIA Expo, the premier event for home technology professionals. Throughout this story we link to our YouTube channel for videos directly from the show....
State of the Smart Home 2019 – Observations from CES
We share our view on the smart home market after our visit to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. After an exciting (and exhausting!) week of walking all over Las Vegas, chatting with...