Why Your Smart Home Needs a Summer Tune-Up You set up your smart home in the winter. Your thermostat learns your heating schedule, your lights turn on at 4:30 PM because that is when it gets dark, and your automations assume you are inside most of the day. Summer changes everything. Days are longer, you … Read more
What if you could keep your wall switch and make it smart? For years, the smart home lighting dilemma has been simple but frustrating: you either replace your bulbs with smart ones and lose wall-switch control, or you stick with dumb bulbs and miss out on automation. The new LIFX Smart Dimmer Switch, which started … Read more
iRobot went bankrupt, got acquired by a Chinese robotics company, and came back with eight new Roomba models that are smaller, cheaper, and finally competitive again. If you wrote off Roomba after the failed Amazon acquisition and the financial collapse, the 2026 lineup deserves a second look. Here is what changed, what did not, and … Read more
Smart blinds and curtains are the most underrated smart home upgrade you can make for summer. Everyone talks about smart thermostats and energy monitoring, but automated window treatments can cut your cooling costs by up to 45 percent according to recent studies, and they do it without you ever touching a button. Here’s how to … Read more
You locked the door, set the thermostat, and asked your neighbor to check on the cat. But your smart home can do better than that — and it never forgets, never oversleeps, and never gets distracted by a pool party notification while your basement floods. Vacation used to mean worrying. Worrying about the pipes, the … Read more
The Nursery Is the One Room Where Smart Home Technology Is Not a Luxury When you bring a baby home, everything changes. Sleep becomes fragmented, anxiety spikes, and you start questioning things you never thought about before. Is the room too warm? Is the baby still breathing? Did I close the nursery door? Did the … Read more
Smart blinds and curtains are the most underrated Smart Home upgrade you can make for summer. Everyone talks about smart thermostats and energy monitoring, but automated window treatments can cut your cooling costs by up to 45 percent according to recent studies, and they do it without you ever touching a button. Here’s how to … Read more
Home Assistant gives you local control of every smart device — no cloud, no subscriptions, no company deciding what they can do. Here’s how to get started.
