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...
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Smart Home Security with Konnected
After we began our journey to automate our home, we wondered if there was some way to take advantage of all the pre-wired window and door sensors that came with our house. We never...
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...
Adding security with a smart camera
Security cameras have been in use for years, long before the DIY smart home revolution. While there have been a lot of great smart cameras on the market, in general we have hesitated to...
Which Smart Home Platform is Right for You?
When we first started our experiments at AppMyHome, there were no real DIY smart home platforms out there, just point devices with a single purpose, like the Nest thermostat or sophisticated specialty platforms that...
Home Automation without the CTO
Last week I was on my own in my automated house, without my chief technical officer. I consider myself fairly technical and I do enjoy gadgets, but if it were up to me we...
Have we reached our goal to automate?
I picked up some additional z-wave gadgets. A GE dimmer, a couple of outlets and a three-way kit, plus an Orbit water faucet. We are running out of switches and plugs that need updating....
Smartthings now supports wemo and hue
Last night I asked smartthings to add wemo and hue to our hub. And low and behold this morning they were there! So spent a while configuring the devices and setting up a few...