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How to move from one smart home hub platform to another

December 8, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Brian called into the podcast hotline with a rather timely question. Like me, Brian is switching from a Wink hub to the Samsung SmartThings hub. I'm doing the same thing and I've previously outlined steps you should … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: How to, hub, Samsung SmartThings, smart home, Wink

Podcast: SmartThings’ new gear and a Wink sighting

June 27, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week on the IoT Podcast, Kevin and I spend time discussing Amazon’s new smaller Echo Show and SmartThings’ new trifecta of products.  From there we talk about a frightening new malware that’s bricking IoT devices and its unlikely origin. We … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Dell Technologies, Ericsson, google, MonArc Bionetworks, Nordic Semiconductor, Polar, raspberry pi, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Wink

Switching hubs? Here’s why you should always remove smart devices from the old one

March 6, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 4 Comments

I was doing some research on how to back up smart home hub configurations (spoiler alert: you generally can't) when I had a startling revelation. Several of the devices in my home were actively sending data to Samsung's SmartThings servers. Why was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: How to, hub, Samsung SmartThings, SmartThings, Wi-Fi, Wink, z-wave

We need more routers that function as smart home hubs

June 25, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 7 Comments

If I had a dollar for every time my wife asked me “what is that new….. tech box for?” I’d be a very rich man. “Tech box” is her generic for all of the hubs, gateways, bridges, access points, and -- more recently -- smart speakers I’ve installed at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Almond, Fibaro, homekit, hub, Hubitat, iot gateway, mesh networking, router, samsung, Samsung SmartThings, smart home, TP-Link, WeMo, Wink

IoT news of the week for June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Attention coffee shop browsers, Wi-Fi may get better: The Wi-Fi Alliance has created a new certification called Enhanced Open that basically enables public Wi-Fi networks to allow people to browse securely without signing in. The tech is based on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Avnet, cloudpets, Hailo, Mastercard, nvidia, nxp, Qualcomm, Relayr, Samsung SmartThings, security, Visa, Wi-Fi, XCOM

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