GM and hi everyone! A special welcome to the 20 newest readers of the smart home newsletter! Thank you for giving me space in your inbox. And now onwards to this week’s smart home news: A New and Powerful Google Home Feature Last month, Google announced that Google Home is getting a makeover. The new design aims at helping […]
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Me Again 😎 the Smart Home Newsletter Returns 🏠
GM! and it’s been a while since I wrote one of my weekly emails 🖐. To be honest, just been busy on the real-life front, with lots going on with our large family. A little rusty at the moment, so bear with me as I get my typing fingers back into action ⌨️. As always, […]
Why did Google choose Nest as its Smart Home brand?
Before the smart home industry buzz began, Google was mainly known for being a search engine giant. Other than that, the other aspects that users would ever associate Google with were pay-per-click ads and, of course, Google+. However, all this is not the case now. Ever since, through Google Ventures, the search engine giant now […]
Pros and Cons of Google Home
Google Home has changed a lot since it first launched. The original cylindrical speakers are long gone, folded into the Nest lineup, and in 2025 Google rebuilt the whole platform around Gemini, its AI assistant. If you are weighing up Google Home for your own place or for a client, here is where it actually […]
Alexa vs Siri vs Google Assistant. Which is The Best Digital Assistant?
Automating your home has never been easier. Nowadays, you can control the functionalities of your smart devices anyhow you want. It can be via a mobile app, a smart speaker or a digital voice assistant. Voice assistants have become increasingly popular among homeowners because of their ease of use and their interpersonal relationship. Three digital […]
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 […]
Different Smart Home Assistant Form Factors
The Virtual Assistants you’re hearing about on the news and in tech articles are a direct result of artificial intelligence. The earliest examples of these pseudo personalities didn’t even have a cozy electronic processor to inhabit. These were the chatbots that represented the first generations of consumer-friendly smart interfaces. Regarded as simple computer programs, a […]
Smooth Wi-Fi is Essential in Smart homes
Nowadays, a modem router device is supplied by your broadband supplier, this piece of hardware not only interconnects your household with the Internet, but it also radiates a Wi-Fi signal. Not always but in some instances, your router can affect the performance levels of your smart home. On occasions, this piece of hardware may not […]