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...]
What smart home products can monitor soil moisture for a garden?
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...]
Podcast: Amazon’s news bonanza explained
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...]
How Wyze makes such a crazy, good camera for cheap
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...]
Comcast’s Platform Plans Revealed
On this week’s podcast I speak with Daniel Herscovici, the head of Comcast’s Xfinity Home program, and he has some big ambitions. He is in charge of the smart home platform that aims to take over a huge number of homes in the US. We talk about the … [Read more...]