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...]
Podcast: Bluetooth bets on 6 GHz and TP-Link hops on Wi-Fi 7
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...]
Adding smarts to a garage door isn’t always ideal
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...]
How to use a HomeKit garage door opener with an Alexa smart lock
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...]
Podcast: Ecobee embraces radar sensors!
Did y'all know that almost a quarter of people who buy a smart home device, hire a professional to install it? That's just one of the facts I learned at the Parks Associates event happening this week in Dallas. We talk about that before focusing on … [Read more...]