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Podcast: CES has more Matter and many voices

January 5, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham 6 Comments

Kevin and I are at CES 2023 this week and eager for the show floor to open to see all of the new and crazy gear. But before we see the show floor, we had to slog through the planned news and media events, which we're talking about in this week's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: adt, AI, Amazon, Amazon Sidewalk, Arlo, CES 2023, Cync, Eve, Gimmy Chu, Google Nest, Govee, Home Assistant, Josh, Lutron, Masonite, Matter, Nanoleaf, Ring, samsung, Silicon Labs, Thread

IoT news of the week for Nov. 11, 2022

November 11, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Alexa better get to work: Brace yourselves, Alexa owners. Amazon is looking at cost-cutting, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, and Alexa looks like a target. The WSJ reports that the business unit has a reported loss of $5 billion a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Avery Dennison, buttons, Cognitive Systems, Home Assistant, Honeywell, MaxLinear, Philips Hue, smart lights, Thread, vivint, water sensor, WiFi sensing

Wink hub got you down? Here are some smart home switching options.

July 13, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 11 Comments

Wink hubs lost connectivity and functionality since an outage began on July 1. As of today, July 13, it's still a problem according to the official Wink Status page. Indeed, until yesterday, there wasn't even a detailed status update from Wink. Now … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: amazon alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Home Assistant, HomeBridge, Hubitat, Samsung SmartThings, smart home, Wink

Podcast: Lock down your smart home’s data

July 7, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week we continue discussing privacy and data protection with a focus on the smart home. I'd like to see a feature that lets us turn on privacy as needed on our devices, but Kevin doesn't think that's likely. For those who want concrete steps … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Home Assistant, InfluxData, Intent, Johnson Controls, Mozilla, Sigfox, Silicon Labs, smart home, SmartThings, Starlink, TagsBrick, Unabix

With Insteon down, possibly for good, what options do you have for your devices?

April 20, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 133 Comments

This hasn't been a good week for the smart home as yet another connected device service seems to have disappeared. It appears anyone using Insteon products has faced a dead-end as the company's cloud service has gone silent. So too has the company up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: amazon alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, Home Assistant, HOOBS, Hubitat, hubs, Insteon, openhab, Samsung SmartThings, smart home

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