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How to create a wildlife deterrent for your lawn with a smart sprinkler

June 9, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Dwight called in with an interesting question: He’s looking for a way to use some type of motion detection to automatically enable smart water sprinklers to deter deer, rabbits and other animals from feasting on his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Arlo, IFTTT, Netro, rachio, RainMachine, smart home, smart irrigation, smart lawncare, Smart sprinkler, Sprinkler, webcams

Drip, drip: How to make a water spigot smart

September 11, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On the most recent IoT Podcast episode, Ed called into our voicemail hotline looking for a way to add some smarts to an outdoor water spigot. Ed has an outdoor drip irrigation system that he wants to add automation to through the spigot. This would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: B-Hyve, bluetooth, rachio, smart spigot, water sensor, WiFi

What smart home products can monitor soil moisture for a garden?

May 5, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

While we focus mainly on the inside of smart homes, our IoT Podcast Hotline got a call this week about the outside. Jeff left us a message explaining that his parents want to start a garden and he's looking for a smart product that tells them when to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Blossom, gardens, irrigation, rachio, Rain-bird, sensors, soil moisture, Toro

Podcast: Amazon’s news bonanza explained

September 27, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

Last week Amazon released a ridiculous amount of news that we’ve covered in detail, but Kevin and I talk it out and draw attention to some of the things we thought were relevant. We stay in the Seattle area to cover the Microsoft news out this week … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, August, Auklet, Azure, Entergy, google, Microsoft, PTC, rachio, Raiford Smith, SAS, Withings, Yale

How Wyze makes such a crazy, good camera for cheap

July 26, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week I was at Google’s cloud event in San Francisco while Kevin swapped out his video doorbells. We discuss Google’s news related to edge computing and several pieces of doorbell news before talking about a few recent articles that show how far … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Afero, alexa, aws, bluetooth, enterprise, google, Google Home, industrial internet, NB-IoT, nest, rachio, Ring, security, smart home, Smart Kitchen Summit, SmartThings, Tommy Hilfiger, Wyze

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