A smart home hub controls communications in a home automation network between home automation device automatically or on-command. A home automation network may include light bulbs, locks, wireless cameras, video-enabled doorbells, security systems, and even pet feeding duties. Most users setup smart home hubs with thousands of custom commands suiting their exact needs. Needless to say, a […]
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Plenty of people have fallen in love with the Amazon Echo. The smart home/speaker device can be a little hard to describe to the uninitiated, but for those who have experienced it, the technology is hard to live without. NOTE: Click here for Amazon’s own guides to using Echo Tap and Dot. Now Amazon is
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Quite a few people have taken advantage of the smart thermostats made by Nest, allowing them to adjust settings from anywhere they have a data connection. Now a big change is coming by the end of March as Nest plans to close down MyEnergy, the energy data service it picked up three years ago. While
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Ensure Complete Safety with August Smart Lock People are used to keeping their most valuable things under lock to ensure safety. Do you want to provide extra safety at your home and save all your valuable things? August Smart Lock is the very thing you need. Created by the famous designer, it promises a series
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Wondering how to setup IFTTT? The internet is full of useful and fun experiences, but, on the other hand, it can also complicate our simple lives. With so many compatible apps and websites in the world one probably faces difficulty in completing his or her basic tasks or even managing them. Fortunately for everyone, there
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Since its delivery in my office, Philips hue has radically changed my décor, kept my sanctuary safe, helped me relax and focus and above all, lighting has changed. It actually combines high quality LED light with intuitive technology and literally put it in your palm. Hue is a blessing for me since there were very
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Amazon Echo launched in a campaign that went pretty much unnoticed by the public at large. While most people were wondering if the newest Kindles or the Fire Phone would finally revolutionize the tech industry, the little smart home device flew under the radar. Then, almost all of the sudden, the Echo has come into
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While Amazon has been working with a number of products featuring speakers, it rose to fame with its Echo SmartSpeaker and it has been adding more and more products with advanced features on almost a weekly basis for quite some time. More recently Amazon added more features and one of them, the most outstanding of
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