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...
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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 Sleep Temperature with BedJet
Temperature can be one of the biggest challenges to falling and staying asleep. In the summer we kick off the covers and in the winter we hog them. Other than our Nest Thermostat, we...
Smart Home Control with the Wink Hub 2
Update April 16, 2020: We no longer use our Wink Hub 2. Read why here. We purchased our first Wink smart home Hub in 2014, from Home Depot, not too long after it first...
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...
Solar-powered Smart Camera – the Ring Stick Up Cam
Around the same time we installed our mom’s Ring Pro doorbell, we decided we wanted to try out Ring’s portable, mountable security camera, the Ring Stick Up cam. As we have discussed before, we...
2016 Smart Home Holiday Gift Guide
Welcome to our third annual smart home holiday gift guide. As we get ready to start our fourth year of AppMyHome, it is really interesting to reflect how far we have come in home...
Smart Home with Amazon Echo
The first time we heard about the Amazon Echo was about this time last year when a colleague shared this video. Even after watching the more serious version, we were a bit puzzled. What...
Local Smart Home Control with Zipato
Update April 16, 2020: we no longer use our Zipabox smart home hub. Zipato continues to expand their product line and we visit them every year at CEDIA and CES. Over the last couple...