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ABB Systems purchased Eve in a bid for smart energy

June 12, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham 4 Comments

Eve Energy Plug

ABB Group, and industrial giant, has purchased Eve Systems, a maker of connected switches, plugs and sensors that work with Thread, HomeKit, and Matter. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the deal has been in works for at least the last six or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: ABB, Ecobee, Eve, Generac, Hubitat, LeGrand, Lumin, Meross, Nanoleaf, Netatmo, Quilt, Resideo, Sengled, Span

When is Apple HomeKit going to fix its broken Matter experience?

March 8, 2023 by Kevin C. Tofel 25 Comments

This should be an exciting time. Officially certified Matter devices are arriving and becoming available. So the promise of simple device onboarding and support for multiple smart home ecosystems is here, right? Not so much if you're an Apple HomeKit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: Android, Apple, Eve, Google Home, homekit, HomePod mini, Matter, Matter controller, Meross, smart home, Tapo

Podcast: Bluetooth bets on 6 GHz and TP-Link hops on Wi-Fi 7

November 17, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

Amazon has started laying off workers, including some working on Alexa and in Amazon's devices business. We discuss this as well as IBM following in Google's footsteps and shutting down its IoT cloud business. We move from bad news to innovation with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Apple TV, ARM, Bluetooth SIG, EnOcean, Forrester, homekit, ibm, Matter, Meross, nest, Nexperia, Nowi, Schlage, Silicon Labs, TagsAmazon, TP-Link, Wyze

Adding smarts to a garage door isn’t always ideal

September 17, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 4 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, we took a question from Sam on our Voicemail hotline. Sam has a Chamberlain MyQ connected garage door opener and he wants to make it easier for his children to open the garage. Currently, Sam can open the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: buttons, Chamberlain, Flic, garage doors, Genie, IFTTT, Meross, MyQ, smart home

How to use a HomeKit garage door opener with an Alexa smart lock

May 25, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

On our latest IoT Podcast episode, we take a question that Steve left on our IoT Voicemail Hotline. Steve is transitioning his smart home platform from using Amazon Alexa to Apple HomeKit. However, his family likes the fingerprint sensor door lock in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: amazon alexa, Apple HomeKit, Ecobee, fingerprint sensor, garage doors, Meross, smart locks

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