Alexa Guard Overview & Integration w/Home Assistant
Alexa Guard is a feature of Amazon Echo devices that protects your home while you’re away. It can listen for sounds that indicate danger, either from an intruder or something else going …
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Brilliant Home Control: Light Switch of the Future
When it comes to smart homes, the only thing more difficult than building one is making them easy to control. Many DIY smarthomes are littered with features that only the person who …
7 Tips For Creating Your Dream Smart Home
Creating a smart home doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, it can be done in 5 easy steps. In truth, smart home technology can be pretty complicated. Selecting your devices and …
19 Home Automation Ideas For Your Smarthome
Are you new to building a smarthome or just looking for some ideas on what to automate? Then you’ve come to the right place. Most people focus on remote and voice control …
Deebot N79S: The Best Value in Robotic Vacuums
For years I’ve been interested in robot vacuums. Coming home to clean floors that my kids seem to instantly dirty with no effort from me seems like a dream. However, I’ve been …
Quick Thoughts on the Perfect Universal Remote
I’m a techie, and I like equipping my home with a lot of tech equipment, especially when it comes to media and audio/video (A/V) equipment. However, this penchant for adding new tech …
Create A Smarthome In 5 Steps
Interested in turning your home into a smarthome? There are many good reasons you should be. Not sure where to start? Here are 5 steps that anyone can do themselves to make …