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Question of the Day: What Smart Home Tech Do You Use in Your House?

Tim January 22, 2018 129

I'm rather late to the smart home game, but I'm getting there. I have an ecobee thermostat, couple Google Home units, Amazon Echo, few Philips Hue lightbulbs, and I think the next purchase for my house will be a Nest Hello doorbell. There are countless smart...

Schlage Adds Amazon Alexa Support for Sense Smart Deadbolts

Tim October 31, 2017 7

Schlage, makers of the Sense Smart Deadbolt, are announcing support for Amazon Alexa this week. With this integration, owners can get info on the current state of their door's deadbolt and control it all from within the Alexa app on their phone. To make this...

Render of Possible Nest Lite Hits the Web

Tim August 21, 2017 7

Back in March, a report stated that Nest was working on a sub-$200 smart thermostat. Since then, we haven't heard a peep. Last Friday, though, as we were all closing up shop, @evleaks posted what appears to be a render of Nest's upcoming thermostat, one that...

ecobee4 Smart Thermostat With Alexa Announced, Priced at Just $249

Tim May 3, 2017 28

ecobee, makers of smart thermostats, announced the latest iteration of its lineup this morning, the ecobee4 with Amazon Alexa integration. Already similar to previous versions of ecobee, the big change for ecobee4 is this Amazon Alexa integration. ecobee...

IKEA Introduces TRÅDFRI Smart Lighting System, Bulbs as Low as $11.99

Kellen March 27, 2017 44

If you have yet to jump into the world of smart lights, I certainly can understand. After all, these things (Philips products in particular) are pretty damn expensive. But what if IKEA offered up a solution that wasn't cheap, but also wasn't ridiculously...

Logitech Pop are Smart Home Switches to Help Automate Your Smart Home

Kellen August 11, 2016 13

Logitech introduced a new smart home product today that might just solve one of the problems I seem to constantly complain about. Yeah, I know, this is all about me. But listen, if you get into overstuffing your home with "smart" stuff like I have, you'll soon...

Question of the Day: Do You Have Smart Home Products?

Kellen March 3, 2016 103

This morning, shortly after Amazon announced two new Alexa-powered devices to help them extend their smart home assistant presence to more places and in new forms, the folks at Nest finally came around to announcing that their products were now working with...

Samsung Announces SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit, $249 for a Smart Home Package

Tim October 16, 2015 9

Looking for a quick way to bump your house into a Smart Home? Samsung is now selling a package of SmartThings goodies, priced at $249, called the SmartThings Home Monitoring Kit. Inside, buyers will have the SmartThings Hub to connect all sensors, cameras,...