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We need a standards-based solution for smart home device and automation backups

April 10, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

News this week of Comcast shutting down Stringify has surely upset the service's user base. Granted it's a small group of affected users - Stringify had 100,000+ downloads in the Google Play Store compared to more than 5 million IFTTT installs, for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured, News Tagged With: Home Assistant, hub, IFTTT, Node-RED, openhab, samsung, smart home, SmartThings, Wink, Yonomi

The Wild West era of the smart home is at an end

April 8, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 10 Comments

The buyers of smart home gear woke up on Monday to some pretty bad news. The first was an article detailing why How to Geek could no longer recommend the Wink hub and the second was an email from software-based smart home platform Stringify, that it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: comcast, HomeBridge, openhab, SmartThings, stringify, Wink, Yonomi

Podcast: Your smart home questions, answered!

July 5, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 5 Comments

This week Kevin and I decided to do something a bit unusual, turning our segment where we answer listener’s questions into the entire show. You guys have been sending a lot of interesting questions to the Schlage IoT Podcast Listener Hotline, and we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, American Family, Apple, August, Control4, google, Home Asiistant, Liberty Mutual, openhab, samsung, Schlage, smart home, SmartThings

What’s wrong with the smart home?

March 7, 2017 by Stacey Higginbotham 3 Comments

I've been thinking for the last few months that we've misled people about the promise of the smart home, and perhaps as an industry, we need to focus on the basics before promising these intuitive homes of the future. I recently built a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: google, Open Connectivity Foundation, openhab, smart home

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