Smart Home Weekly Newsletter

 Every week, Gerard sends one email worth reading: curated industry news, product updates, and practical insights for smart home installers, consultants, and serious enthusiasts.

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WHO WRITES THIS NEWSLETTER

The Smart Home Weekly is written by Gerard O’Driscoll, an ICT expert, educator, and one of the longest-standing voices in the smart home industry. Gerard has been following smart home developments since 1999, authored multiple books on the subject, founded an online store and installation company for connected home products, and has trained over 1,500 smart home professionals through the NGSHI certification programme.

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He is based in Limerick, Ireland, with his wife, Olive, and their five kids, so their home is a working smart home lab whether he likes it or not.

WHO READS THIS NEWSLETTER

Smart home professionals, installers, electricians, IT specialists, and serious enthusiasts who want to stay on top of a fast-moving industry. Whether you’re adding smart home to an existing business, building a consulting practice, or simply want to know what’s actually worth paying attention to each week, this is the newsletter for you. It covers the products that matter, the industry shifts worth knowing about, and the occasional opinion from someone who has been in this space since before Alexa existed.

YOUR WELCOME GIFT

When you sign up, you will receive a free copy of one of Gerard’s Smart Home Automation Essential Guides by email. The series covers the key smart home categories in plain English, written for people who want to actually understand the technology, not just read a spec sheet. It is yours free, no strings attached, just for joining the list.

NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Every issue is published here after it goes out. Browse below or scroll to the bottom for older issues going back to 2014.

RECENT ISSUES

Issue #62: CEDIA Expo’s BEST Product Winners, Home Assistant’s Matter Map & More
Issue #61: Apple’s Siri AI Hub, Gemini Memory and Alexa+ Opens Up
Issue 57 – Home Assistant Just Got a Lot More Useful
Issue 56: Gemini Expressive Lighting, Josh.ai AI X OS, Shelly Presence Gen4
Issue 55: Philips Hue Drops Apple Home Promise, Home Assistant 2026.3, Hue Flux US Launch

ARCHIVE OLDER ISSUES NOTE

Older issues from 2020 to 2023 are listed below. Issues from 2014 are included for the archive record — the smart home industry has changed considerably since then, but they give a sense of how long this community has been at it.