Local control smart home products have many advantages over cloud control. Three important advantages are: Unfortunately, some of the most popular smart home products are cloud control only. In this article, I’ll …
Smart plugs are an essential part of any smart home build. In my book, The Smart Home Manual, I include smart plugs as part of the basics for those wanting to get …
All over the world people are dealing with the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. As of the time of the writing of this article, COVID-19 has already infected more than 13 times the number …
Once again it’s time to start planning the Christmas tech gifts you’re going to purchase for friends, family, and yourself! Here are 15 affordable and useful tech gifts you can buy now …
This is part 2 of 4 in my series about my smarthome evolution. In part 1 I discussed how I got my start into developing my smarthome. When I started, I didn’t …
I’d been using a Veralite for home automation, including running my Z-Wave network, for years before I started using Home Assistant. Over the course of a few months, I transferred almost all …
Smart plugs are a basic building block of a smarthome. If you are looking for a basic, inexpensive smart plug, it’s hard to go wrong with the Gosund Wifi Smart Plug WP3. …