My 2021 Geeky Wish List
I review and discuss a ton of smart home, cordcutting, and home networking gear at this blog. You’d think I have all the gear I’d want, right? Not even close. Unfortunately, two …
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8 Smart Home Benefits for Seniors
Smart homes have benefits for anyone. I’ve previously written an article about why you would want a smart home and I go into even more detail in my book, The Smart Home …
Updating My Home Lab: Proxmox, pfSense, and More
Not too long ago I wrote about the current state of my smarthome, including my home lab. In short, my infrastructure was old, mangled together, and in need of consolidation and modernization. …
5 Local Control Alternatives to Popular Smart Home Products
Local control smart home products have many advantages over cloud control. Three important advantages are: You can keep controlling them even when your Internet service is down or you have some other …
The Current State of My Smart Home
The changes I made to my smart home in 2020 2020 was a crazy year, and I was inside my home more than I’ve been my entire life, except for maybe the …
Smart Home Dimming with The Shelly Dimmer 2
Background on my use case I’ve been a fan of TP-Link (Kasa) smart home products for a while. They are inexpensive, allow local control, and work well. A couple of things happened …
DIY Garage Door Opener w/ Security+ 2.0 GDOs
A little while back I wrote an article about how to turn your dumb garage door opener into a smart one for just $15 using a Shelly 1 relay. This worked great …