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Podcast: Ring wins big with Lennar

February 4, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

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This week's show kicks off with news from Lennar about its new smart home offering with Ring, and a discussion on what it means that Ring now has more than 2,000 police and fire departments as partners. After that, we discuss what we learned from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Abode, Apple, Flo, google, lennar, Level Lock, Resideo, Ring, Techmeme, Teracode, Tesla, Wink

Lennar teams up with Ring for the smart home 2.0

February 2, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

Lennar, Inc, one of the largest homebuilders in the U.S., is making it easier for homebuyers to purchase a complete smart home. Today the company announced Lennar Communities Connected by Ring, a full smart system with connectivity, a thermostat, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Eero, Flo, Honeywell Home, lennar, Level, LiftMaster, mesh networking, moen, MyQ, Ring, smart home, Wifi 6

Who’s in charge of the smart house? Yes, the actual house.

February 1, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

After eight years of torturing my family with smart bulbs, sensors, connected kitchen appliances, and an assortment of software and devices that tended to mostly work, but would fail only at 2 a.m. in a show of sparks or lights or noise, I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Aquanta, Flo, Phyn, Resideo, SepticSitter, Span

How to plan your smart home when building a new house

May 20, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 7 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast, we actually had two very similar questions left on our IoT voicemail hotline from Tyler and Dan. Both are building new homes and are wondering how to best plan for their smart home needs. They also have some existing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: amazon alexa, Arlo, Delta, Ecobee, Eufy, Flo, google assistant, Google Home, homekit, moen, nest, Phyn, smart home, smart locks, smart thermostat, video doorbell, water sensor, webcams, Wyze

How to pick a smart leak detector for your home

June 29, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Bobby called and left a voicemail question about leak detector sensors. He has an $80 Honeywell Lyric Water Leak and Freeze Detector now but is interested in adding more water sensors to the home he just bought with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Bouy, d-link, Flo, Honeywell, leak detection, Lyric, Phin, samsung, sensors, smart home, SmartThings, water sensor

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