Hey, Good Morning and how’s it going? Firstly, Happy New Year! The smart home news stories were scant last week for obvious reasons 🙂 but did manage to identify a few nuggets for this week’s newsletter. First up is Philips Hue smart lighting products: Hue Dimmers 💡 2021 will herald a new era of the […]
Smart Home Windows, Apples and Hubs
Hey, Morning! and welcome to my weekly digest of Smart Home news. Hope Christmas went well! Lots of Santa, turkey, and ham here at the O’Driscoll home, got a Fitbit sense from my wife Olive, and really loving it! Not only does it do lots of cool health stuff, but it includes Google Assistant and […]
Lidl Smart Homes and Much More
Hey, Morning! winding down here for Christmas at the O’Driscoll household. Here are some cool smart home news that came into my inbox this week! Spuds and Smart Devices…🥔 To be honest, this came a little, or should I say Lidl off guard! The Germany based grocery giant has entered the smart home marketplace. Yep, […]
Smart Home Buttons and Fridges🧊
Hey, Morning, just finishing my coffee and hope to take it easy for the day. Here are a few stories I thought you might enjoy reading! HomeKit Buttons 🔘 In addition to interfacing with your smart home via an app or smart speaker, many people like to use tactile buttons to control smart devices. Smart home […]
China, Thread and Smart Locks 🏠
Hey, Happy Sunday, so all good here in Ireland; it’s my birthday today, so another year older 🙂 Anyway, here are a few stories I curated this week from around the Web. Enjoy! Smart Home Threads Germany-based Eve Systems a strong player in the Apple HomeKit devices space announced support for Thread Smart Home. What […]
Batteries, Smart Home Rain and More…..
Hiya, Gerard here! Good Morning and hope your weekend is going well, a few quick notes about the goings-on in the smart home space last week. Motion and Batteries To date in the world of Ring smart home, the customizable motion zone feature was confined to wired iterations of their products. This week, the company […]
Adaptive Smart lighting, smart home theatre and Hue competitor
Hiya, Gerard here! Good Morning and hope your weekend is going well, a few quick notes about the goings on in the smart home space last week. Colors, Colors The latest feature from Hue Adaptive Lighting could turn out to be very useful for many households. It’s related to color adjustments that varies as the […]
Smart home fires, Hue’s affair, and Josh coins
Hiya, Gerard here! How’s it going? Hope you’re Sunday is going well, a few quick notes about the goings-on in the smart home space last week. Ring Recalls Co-incidentally! I tuned into Jason Calacanis’s podcast on Sunday – this week in startups a fan for nearly a decade at this stage! And ended up listening […]
What’s the Story With Smart Doorbells?
On investigating the cool features of smart doorbells, we’ll discover just how self-aware visitor announcement devices are becoming. This is a nascent market, but one that’s destined to catch up with more mature home security gadgets, such as smart locks and the ever-watchful entrance IP camera. Accepting Past Doorbell Limitations This is the age of […]
Mini Smart Home Devices.
Hiya, Gerard here! Back again after a number of years 🙂 Hope all is going well this weekend! let’s dive into some stories that caught my attention this week. Do you want buy a HomePod? No, not talking about the original and expensive iteration of Apple’s venture into the smart speaker, instead I am talking […]
What is a Smart Thermostat in 2020?
Here is the shortest post I’ve written in a while! The last few years have seen rapid developments in the smart thermostat space. A smart thermostat, typically wall-mounted, connects to your Wi-Fi network and measures ambient temperature in the room using onboard or satellite sensors. Once you define a comfortable level, the thermostat will try […]
Essential Guide to Smart Home Virtual Assistants & Smart Speakers
Hiya, Gerard here, just spent this Saturday evening posting the Internet’s most detailed set of articles about smart speakers and associated virtual assistants, that’s a pretty big achievement on this windy evening here in Ireland 🙂 This guide (ten blog posts in total) is intended to be read by the following people: Homeowners interested in […]