Good Evening everyone! It’s the holiday season and bought our Christmas tree yesterday and full family around to help me get it set up and twinkling later this afternoon. Speaking of Christmas 🤶 very little news emanating from the smart home industry players this past seven days. Here are a few snippets I gleaned this […]
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Ring Gets Festive, New Alexa Switches and Chatting Features 🗣️
Good evening! Releasing this newsletter late today, driving around this morning, and dropping kids at different sporting events. All cool in this part of the world and hope those of you in the US had a great Thanksgiving holiday. Here are a few snippers of smart home news to check out this week: Ho Ho […]
Smart Home Resignation, Smart Voices, and Sleepy Nest
Hiya fellow smart homers, spent the last few days down with my parents in Cork and just back this morning. Looking forward to a relaxed Sunday ahead, here are some smart home news stories that came to light this past week. Smart Home Resignation 👋 One of Apples’ high-profile SH people moved on last week. […]
Smart Thermostat News, Smart Turkeys 🐔 and Smart Home Rumours!
Morning everyone, hope all is good, getting ready for a long drive to my native county of Cork to watch our second youngest daughter play some sports. The weather is good and looking forward to the day ahead. Grab a coffee and enjoy some of the smart home stories that I reviewed this past week, […]
Smart Home Wellness, Safety, and Buttons!
Evening everybody, slightly later this fine Sunday evening; did a short run earlier and lots of kids activities for the rest of the day, here are a few smart home stories I caught sight of this past week! Smart Wellness 👩⚕️ There are a plethora of smart home air quality monitors available to consumers. And […]
Smart Home Couches 🛋️, Recurring Revenue and a Cheap Smart Doorbell
Happy Halloween to all 🎃😊 All good in this part of the world. Lots of activities here today with trick or treating with the younger ones and the older crew I believe are on the town tonight! On the smart home front, I’ve picked out some stories, that I thought you might enjoy this Sunday […]
Multi-color HomePods, Smart Home Subs, and More
Hiya, Gerard here; hope your week is going pretty cool; no major news in this part of the world. Hoping for a relatively easy Sunday ahead! Check out some smart home stories I gleaned from the Web over the past seven days: Multiple HomePod Colors 📻 Although unexpected, Apple announced some iterations of its HomePod […]
Cool New and Talking Smart Thermostats, and Expensive Mesh Wi-Fi
How’s it going, fellow smart homers? So like last weekend, had a packed weekend with family visiting us and had a great time. Bouncy castle out the back garden for the kids and lots of food and drink for the adults! And here are a few newsworthy stories I encountered these past seven days: A […]
Lots of Amazon Smart Home News 📺
Good Morning…Just back from a short run in the rain, and looking forward to a relaxing day ahead! This week is very much a series of Amazon-centric smart homes: New Ring Features 🚪 At a recent Amazon devive event; one of its smart home divisions, namely Ring got a lot of mention. Here are the […]
Sonos Cinema 📽️, Smart Mattresses 🛏️ and More
Morning smart home people! All good here in this part of the world, looking out the window and lots of clouds, which might put paid to my run this morning. Anyway’s here is the latest smart home scandals! Sonos Cinemas 📽️ There has always and always will be something cool about this company! Sonos pioneered […]