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How to use a LUX sensor to improve a “lights on at sunset” automation

December 29, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Scott called in with a question to our voice mail hotline with a smart lighting question. He uses a Hubitat hub to turn his lights on automatically at sunset. However, on certain days, that’s not early enough because … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: automations, Hubitat, LUX sensor, smart home, smart lights, z-wave

Can you integrate a Nest Hello doorbell and LIFX bulb for smart home automations?

December 12, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Rick called in with a question to our voicemail hotline. He previously used IFTTT to integrate his Ring doorbell with a LIFX bulb; the bulb would flash whenever someone was at the front door. Rick now uses a Nest Hello … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: automations, LIFX, nest, Nest Hello, Ring, samsung, smart home, SmartThings, video doorbell

How to automate a Zigbee light with SmartThings and the state of a smart lock

July 29, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Bob called into the voicemail hotline with a question about automating lights based on the state of his smart lock. He has a Schlage lock, uses SmartThings and wants to have a Zigbee light turn on for 30 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: automations, samsung, Schlage, smart home, smart lights, smart lock, SmartThings, zigbee

How to automatically turn lights on at sunset with Google Home

July 11, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 8 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dean called in to the IoT voicemail hotline asking how to use Google Home for automatically turning on his Philips Hue and Wemo lights at sunset. Sunset and sunrise automations can be very useful, so I can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Amazon Echo, automations, google assistant, Google Home, homekit, IFTTT, SmartThings, Weather Underground, Wink

IoT sensors, machine learning and chips were the real stars of Apple’s WWDC 2020

June 23, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

While watching the virtual Apple WorldWide Developer Conference on Monday, I imagined that if people were actually at the event, they’d be oohing and aahing over new software for iOS and Mac devices. I wasn’t. Well not quite. Instead, I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: accelerometer, AirPods Pro, algorithms, Apple, Apple Health, Apple Watch, AppleTV, automations, CarKey, gyroscope, homekit, iOS, machine learning, routines, sensors, smart home, WWDC 2020

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