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How to choose the best router for a smart home

November 17, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Marion called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about routers. Specifically, she wants to know which router would be best for managing IoT devices in a smart home. Marion has a range of products from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Asus, Eero, Firewalla, Linksys, mesh networking, Nest Wifi, Netgear Orbi, plume, smarthome, TP-Link, WiFi, Wifi 6

What smart plugs should you buy if you want Alexa, SmartThings and IFTTT support?

July 18, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Tony called in with a question about WiFi smart plugs. He’s used a few such as those from TP Link and other brands but has had some issues. And he needs any new plugs to work with Amazon Alexa and/or Samsung … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, Belkin, IFTTT, samsung, smart plugs, smarthome, SmartThings, WeMo

It’s time for smart home devices to have local failover options during cloud outages

February 26, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

Earlier this week, a Nest outage lasted for 17 hours. Nest cameras didn't capture any video footage during that time. This downtime was likely a minor inconvenience, in most cases, if it was noticed at all. But for others who experienced some type of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Echo, cloud, google, nest, Ring, security, smarthome, video doorbell, webcams, Wyze, wyzecam

Rebranding won’t save the smart home, trust will

January 13, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

We need to dump the phrase "smart home" and adopt something new. That was a big takeaway from my panel focused on the smart home in 2020 held this week at CES. Fellow panalist Felicite Moorman, CEO of Stratis IoT, suggested we should return to using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: AARP, Amazon, Apple CHIP, CES 2020, google, irobot, smarthome, Stratis IoT

The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home

November 18, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 35 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Allegion, Amazon, Control4, google, nest, smarthome

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