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IoT news of the week for Dec. 18, 2020

December 18, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Honeywell acquires Sine to take its Honeywell Forge platform mobile: Industrial giant Honeywell said it has acquired Australian company Sine so it can boost the mobile capabilities of its Honeywell Forge automation and building management software. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Halo, edge computing, Ericsson, FreeRTOS, Home Assistant, Honeywell, Innatera, satellite, SpaceX, Tonic, z-wave

DIY smart home hubs are going retail: Here’s why that’s a good thing

December 16, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

For years, there have been two kinds of hubs that run smart homes. One is the kind you buy from a retailer, such as the Amazon Echo Plus, Hubitat, Samsung SmartThings, or Wink hubs. And one is the DIY kind where you download and install software to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, DIY, google, Home Assistant, Home Assistant Blue, HomeBridge, hubs, open source, raspberry pi, samsung, smart home

IoT news of the week for April 24, 2020

April 24, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Spectrum for 6GHz Wi-Fi gets OK'd: The world of Wi-Fi is about to get a super fast lane for new devices thanks to the FCC voting on Thursday to approve 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6GHz band. This will add to the existing 5GHz and 2.4 GHz bands … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: ABB Power Grid, Boston Dynamics, Einride, Ericsson, FCC, google, Home Assistant, nvidia, Wi-Fi6

How to create automations in Home Assistant that supercharge your smart home

April 22, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 6 Comments

For the past several weeks, I’ve been continuing a journey to immerse myself with Home Assistant, the open-source software platform used as a DIY local smart home hub If you’ve missed the previous steps I’ve taken so far with my Home Assistant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Almond, automation, digital assistant, Home Assistant, local processing, raspberry pi, smart home, SSH, voice assistant, yaml

Just how secure is Home Assistant? (Hint: very)

April 8, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, a listener with the same name as me called in asking about Home Assistant security. Specifically, he wanted to know how secure I thought it was and I'm super glad he asked. Why? Because as I've continued my DIY journey … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: 2FA, Home Assistant, hubs, Nabu Casa, open source, raspberry pi, security, smart home, SSH, VPN

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