How to Have Hot Water in the Morning
We automate our hot water circulator with a smart plug and Alexa. We’ve all been there in the morning, standing outside the shower waiting for the water to warm up. Depending how far your...
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Our Journey with SmartThings
Over the years we have used many smart home hubs to automate different aspects of our home. We love the additional control and security we get using Z-Wave switches, outlets and sensors and having...
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...
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 2017
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?
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...