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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Smart Home Control with the Wink Hub 2
We purchased our first Wink smart home Hub in 2014, from Home Depot, not too long after it first became available. At the time we had been experimenting with other smart home hubs, including...
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...
Local Smart Home Control with Zipato
Over the last couple of years, we have tested several of the leading smart home hubs available in the US, including Iris, Smart Things, Staples Connect, and Wink (and compared them in November 2014). While...
Wink Hub Goes Down
Yesterday Wink had a major meltdown and ours was one of the many hubs impacted. There has been a lot of coverage in the press so we won’t go into the details here, evidently...
Tripper Door and Window Sensors
Now that we have replaced a good portion of our home’s lights with either smart bulbs or switches (16 light bulbs, 34 switches and outlets at last count – we had to start keeping...
Our new Wink Relay
We recently installed the new addition to the Wink family, the Relay. This device allows control of all the same devices as the Wink app, using a touchscreen panel mounted to the wall that...