As one decade ends and another begins, I realize that I’ve been following the smart home space for a full 10 years. And yet for most consumers, it may seem like 2019 was the year of the smart home. Because for many, it was probably the first time … [Read more...]
California’s AG has the power to fix smart home camera ‘hacks’
Did you hear about the hackers who accessed peoples' Ring doorbell cameras and Ring cameras, and shouted at them? Just like the Nest camera hacks of a few months back, these hacks were a result of someone having access to the users' password and … [Read more...]
Should you migrate your Nest account to Google? It depends.
On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dean called into the IoT Podcast Hotline and left us a question that many people have pondered over the past few months. Dean is concerned that the Nest app is going away in favor of Google Home due to this … [Read more...]
The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home
The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]
Podcast: Google explains itself and new Wyze gear!
Wyze makes some of the most reasonably-priced smart-home gear on the market and said earlier this month that it was planning a smorgasbord of new products, which Kevin and I detail in this episode. We then cover low-power wide-area networks with news … [Read more...]
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