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Podcast: Bluetooth bets on 6 GHz and TP-Link hops on Wi-Fi 7

November 17, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

Amazon has started laying off workers, including some working on Alexa and in Amazon's devices business. We discuss this as well as IBM following in Google's footsteps and shutting down its IoT cloud business. We move from bad news to innovation with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Apple TV, ARM, Bluetooth SIG, EnOcean, Forrester, homekit, ibm, Matter, Meross, nest, Nexperia, Nowi, Schlage, Silicon Labs, TagsAmazon, TP-Link, Wyze

HomeKit how to: Best practices to automate your smart home

June 28, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

I’m now well over a year into my use of HomeKit as the primary ecosystem for my smart home, and while I don’t regret the transition, I still occasionally use and test devices for other platforms. These last 16 months have taught me quite a bit about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Apple, Apple HomeKit, Apple TV, home automation, homekit, HomePod, How to, hubs, smart home

How to fix an Apple HomeKit hub stuck in Standby mode

May 2, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

On our latest IoT Podcast episode, we take a question that Chris left on our IoT Voicemail hotline. Chris has a pair of Apple TV 4K boxes and one HomePod mini, all of which can be used as an Apple HomeKit hub. You can use HomeKit without a hub, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Apple, Apple TV, homekit

WWDC 2021: What Apple’s HomeKit strategy means for the smart home

June 8, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 5 Comments

Like many others, I watched Apple’s WWDC 2021 keynote on Monday. Unlike most of those viewers though, I was impatient for any HomeKit news. It was worth the wait until late in the keynote to hear about HomeKit because Apple is pushing forward with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Apple, Apple HomeKit, Apple TV, Apple Watch, homekit, HomePod mini, iOS, ipad, iphone, local processing, Matter, Siri, smart home

What’s in store for Siri and HomeKit at WWDC 2018?

June 1, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

Next week, Apple will hold its annual developer conference, WWDC. Along with new computing hardware and software features, Apple last year introduced HomePod, the company’s smart speaker with Siri built in. But that device was delayed and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Apple, Apple TV, homekit, HomePod, smart home, z-wave, zigbee

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