Hi, Our heatwave has come to an end! Hope all is well in your part of the world. A relatively ‘quietish’ week on the smart home front, and here are some stories for you to peruse: It’s Brilliant So ‘Brilliant’ is a relatively new supplier of smart home equipment and debuted some devices at CES […]
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New Hue Bulbs, Nest Privacy, Smart Locks 🔐, and More…
Good morning to everyone! Hope the Summer is going well. We were promised a heatwave here in Ireland this week (common occurrence!), but nothing yet only lots of clouds so far! On the smart home, here are some stories that might interest you this Sunday morning: New Hue Bulbs 💡 Looks like some brighter Hue […]
Smart Home Stuff, Ring Smart Cars, Josh Voice, and More
Hi, And good morning; had some time off this week! Ended up hanging out in Cork City on Thursday night, and thoroughly enjoyed the buzz around time. The great weather we are getting at the moment is a big help and raises people’s spirits. Let me now segway into the world of smart homes: Aqara […]
Smart Locks🔐, Google W-Fi and More
Hiya, and gooood morning! Hope your weekend is going well. All cool here in Ireland; and a really Sunny day ahead ☀️; going to hang around and light up the barbeque later🍖. As expected news is slow in the smart home space this time of year; here are some interesting ones I picked up this […]
Spatial Audio, Bye SmartThings, Updated Echo Stuff, and Siri Heat
Howdy! Before we jump into the newsletter, I wanted to mention a few updates to my certified Next-Generation Smart Home Installer (NGSHI) Professional Program Training Program: I created a bunch of design cheat sheets to help you gather some useful information when discussing smart home requirements with an existing or potential client. This week ended […]
New SmartThings App, and loads of Apple Smart Home News
Howdy! And how’s it going; heading to my native County of Cork this morning and looking forward to some time meeting family and hanging out on the beach 🏖️. This weeks smart home news was dominated by some Apple announcements at their annual event, and is further evidence of how Apple is starting to double […]
Eero updates, Airplay 2, and Latest Hue App
Hiya! And good morning to all! Up early this morning and heading off to the beach today 🏖️; so looking forward to that! Here are some interesting snippets of smart home news I came across earlier in the week, enjoy: Google and Apple Smart Homes Looks like co-operation between the big smart home behemoths is […]
Roku Smart Homes a New Smart Homes OS and More
Hiya! Hope all is good; feels kinda ‘Summerish’ here in Ireland this morning, yep we got some sunshine in this part of the world finally ☀️☀️As always I have some interesting snippets of smart home news for the week: New Google Smart Home Web-site 🔖 Here is another interesting snippit that emanated from Google’s recent […]
Alexa Cars, New Smart Home Standard and More….
Hi, And good morning to everyone! The weather is pretty miserable today here in Ireland and hopefully, it clears later. In the world of smart home, we had a pretty interesting week; here are the details: Alexa in Cars For those of you who are Ford car drivers, Alexa is coming your way. This week, […]
Google Hotels, New Smart Home Ecosystem and More
Hi, Happy Sunday, everyone! No major news in this part of the world this week, did go for a hike yesterday as part of our son’s 17 birthday, and the views were on a mountain near a village called Killaloe. So taking it easy today! Here are some smart home stories I came across this […]
IKEA Smart Home Speakers, Adaptive Smart Lights, Ring, Aqara, and More
Hi, Morning everyone; hope all is well, no major news here; the weather is a little overcast this Sunday morning ☁️. On the smart home front, received a new HomeKit smart smoke detector compliments of Amazon this week. And looking forward to setting up and posting the video into the ‘smart homes in 8 weeks’ […]
TRÅDFRI Buttons, Bye Harmony Remotes, Ring Goes Loud, and More
Hi there, Good morning! I hope everyone had a good weekend; all cool here in Ireland, literally temperatues have dropped and lots of rain! Relatively busy week, welcoming some new students into the Certified Next-Generation Smart Home Installer (NGSHI) Professional Program Training Program. So lots to report this week in smart home land: Smart Light […]