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Why I’m pulling the plug on Wink

December 4, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 17 Comments

Over the last year or so, many of us have been wondering what’s going on with Wink. Version 2 of the smart home hub hasn’t seen many updates and I can’t remember the last time I heard about newly supported devices from Wink. Indeed, the most recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon Echo Plus, Google Home, Home Assistant, hub, Hubitat, Insteon, openhab, samsung, smart home, SmartThings, Wink

What’s a good sensor for motion, humidity, temperature and light for the smart home?

April 27, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

There are plenty of single or dual-purpose sensors available for smart homes, but what if you want to know just about everything that's going on inside a room and even automate your home based on that information? That's the latest question we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Aeotec, automation, hub, light sensors, Monoprice, Motion Sensors, sensors, smart home, temperature sensors, z-wave

Can you run an OpenHAB or Home Assistant smart home in the cloud?

April 17, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

Typically, people who use either the OpenHAB or Home Assistant open source smart home platforms tend to run the software on their own computer or a low-cost Raspberry Pi. Can you actually run these on cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: cloud, Home Assistant, hub, open source, openhab, raspberry pi, smart home

We need a standards-based solution for smart home device and automation backups

April 10, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

News this week of Comcast shutting down Stringify has surely upset the service's user base. Granted it's a small group of affected users - Stringify had 100,000+ downloads in the Google Play Store compared to more than 5 million IFTTT installs, for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured, News Tagged With: Home Assistant, hub, IFTTT, Node-RED, openhab, samsung, smart home, SmartThings, Wink, Yonomi

Is Mistral a next-gen mesh network Google Home Hub with ZigBee, or maybe even Thread?

April 3, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

Google appears to be developing a next-generation Home hub that will include mesh Wi-Fi, a ZigBee or thread-based radio and better audio quality according to the evidence I've found in Google's code base. The code I've unearthed refers to "Mistral", … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured, News Tagged With: bluetooth, digital assistants, google, Google Home, Google Home Hub, Google Wi-Fi, hub, mesh networking, Qualcomm, smart home, smart speakers, Wi-Fi, zigbee

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