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Podcast: HomeKit and Home Assistant embrace Matter

June 10, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham

We start this week's show with a quick update on Amazon's Sidewalk and then focused on the smart home news from Apple's WWDC event earlier this week. We're excited about third-party devices getting Siri support. We then cover the EU's thoughts on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Apple, Bsquare, Ecobee, Edge Impulse, google, Helium, Home Assistant, moen, Nanoleaf, Qualcomm, Sidewalk, Siri, Wirepas

An FAQ on the Matter protocol

May 17, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: bluetooth, Control4, CSA, Home Assistant, Matter, Savant, Silicon Labs, z-wave, zigbee

IoT news of the week for May 14, 2021

May 14, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham

Graphic showing Internet of Things news

Two good stories on the Colonial Pipeline hack: The big cybersecurity news this week was a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline Co., which controls a pipeline that sends jet fuel, gas, and heating oil along the Eastern Seaboard of the United … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Ambiq, Colonial Pipeline, GuRu, Home Assistant, Jeeva, Mars, Microsoft, Motorola, SnapAV

Can open-source smart home systems save your deprecated devices?

April 10, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Danny called in to our voicemail hotline with a very interesting question. He wants to know if platforms such as Home Assistant or OpenHAB could help support older smart devices that lose support from their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: APIs, Home Assistant, hubs, open source, openhab, smart home, SmartThings, Wink

The inexpensive age of DIY smart home image detection is here if you’re up for it

February 17, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel

I’ve said many times in the past that every home ought to have a Raspberry Pi computer. And that is even truer for every smart home. Aside from being relatively inexpensive, these sub-$50 computers can accept analog signals from sensors, are easy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: AI, DIY, Home Assistant, HomeBridge, image recognition, iot, machine learning, ML, MMQT, open source, person detection, raspberry pi, smart home, webcams

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