Hiya, Good morning on this Sunny and yet cold morning here in Ireland, a bit quiet around the area due to lockdowns but otherwise grand, so again this week, I have a whole bunch of smart home-related stories for you, so let’s check them out! Rotating Smart Displays 📺 So Amazon, have released another Alexa-enabled […]
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Thread Smart Home Devices Overview
Smart devices must be able to exchange information with one another in a connected world continually. To achieve this, they need to communicate through a common language, i.e., communication protocols. Protocols entail how signals are sent between devices to trigger specific actions like turning on the lights. Protocols are ‘spoken’ through wired or wireless layers, […]
Smart Home Cuckoos 🦉 Ring Doorbell Birds and More
Hiya, Happy Sunday everyone, welcome to our weekly digest of smart home stories, grab a coffee or tea and enjoy! Virtual Smart Home Perimeters Geofencing is a major pillar of any smart home and guess who has added this functionality? Ring! Yes, they are pretty much in the news every week and this is a […]
Smart Doorbell Responses, Google 2030, New Smart Bulbs….
Hiya, I hope everyone had a great weekend so far and that your Sunday is off to a strong start. There’s a lot to discuss in today’s issue, so let’s jump right in. Ring Gets Smarter Yet another product feature announcement from Ring Ring this week, namely the addition of some cool artificial intelligence to […]
Smart Home Laboratories, Walls & More 🧱
Good valentine’s morning, lots of wind and rain outside today here in Ireland, let’s hope it improves later! 🧪 Smart Home Laboratory Looks like the Smart Home Hub grandpappy has added some lab functionality to its app. The new SmartThings feature is aimed at those of you who have already the Smartthings ecosystem and looking […]
Video Doors, UWB, and Smart Home Glitches
Good morning everybody; things are pretty good over here in Ireland, the vaccine rollout is starting to progress, which should hopefully improve things for everyone. On the smart home front, it has been a relatively busy week in terms of new stuff and things breaking! Time for some coffee! so enjoy this weeks update: Video […]
Outside HomeKit & Smart Home Dogs
Good morning everybody; hope all is well. ……All great here, our second-youngest is 12 today, so big day planned! Also, just finished charging the Ring gen 2 doorbell, so need to re-attach to the bracket later this morning. Otherwise, that’s it, enjoy some smart home stories I picked up this week on the Interweb! HomeKit […]
🏠Google Home Guests and TP-LInk Smart Homes
Good morning everybody; hope all is well. Grabbed three smart home stories this week that I thought might be of interest, enjoy and touch base again next Sunday. Google Guests 🧑🤝🧑 Privacy is big nowadays, particularly when it comes to smart speakers in our homes. If you own a Google Home smart speaker and not […]
🐌 🔌Smart Snails, GE, HomeKit, and Air Gestures
Happy Sunday everybody, hope all is well wherever you are in the world this nice morning. All quiet here at the O’Driscoll smart home. As always I’ve gathered some snippets of what’s going on in the smart home space this past week, so enjoy! New Google Nest Hub on the Way According to Internet sources, […]
🐅Tigers, AI, and Bye Google Home Max
Another wild week around the world! And Covid seems to continue its onward march in people’s lives everywhere. For a little bit of light reading, check out some smart home stories I ran across during the past seven days: Apple Siri Tiger Sounds 🐅 Yes, you read correctly, Apple has added a new fun trick […]