On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dave called in to our voicemail hotline looking for advice. His brother-in-law has a Google TV and Nest Audio speakers but wants to invest in whole-home audio and smart lighting. Dave wonders what we would … [Read more...]
An FAQ on the Matter protocol
This week, Project Connected Home over IP became Matter, and with the new name came new information about how it will provide interoperability between certain classes of smart home devices. Now that the protocol is back in the spotlight, I'm getting … [Read more...]
Google’s ADT partnership turns the smart home into a service
Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]
The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home
The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]
Can beautiful hardware sell you on a pro smarthome?
SnapAV has launched a new remote for its smart home installations that combines beautiful aesthetics with the SnapAV's newly acquired Control4 smart home operating system. The new remote is the result of Control4's acquisition earlier this year of … [Read more...]
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