Orro Now Offering Alexa Built-in Integration for Pro-Level Smart Living System Tech

Orro Now Offering Alexa Built-in Integration for Pro-Level Smart Living System

The creators of the professional-grade Orro Smart Living System are now offering Alexa Built-in integration for their Orro Switch. Available via wireless update for Orro owners, the upgrade allows homeowners to directly access Alexa through their Orro Switches, providing Alexa capabilities including checking the weather or news,...
LG HU810P CineBeam Projector for Video Quality Like the Filmmaker Intended Tech

LG HU810P CineBeam Projector for Video Quality Like the Filmmaker Intended

I’ll cut right to the chase. I love the picture quality of the LG HU810P 4K UHD Laser Smart Home Theater CineBeam Projector so much that it makes me sad that I’ll have to send it back after completing this review. The combination of the projector’s dual laser light source and much-heralded Filmmaker Mode (thank you Tom Cruise) is...
Parks Associates: Smart Home Players Look to Overcome Consumer Price Sensitivity Tech

Parks Associates: Smart Home Players Look to Overcome Consumer Price Sensitivity

Parks Associates smart home research finds high perceived prices remain a top barrier to smart home adoption, with providers and manufacturers working to bring lower priced products to market and discontinue specific premium products. The firm's Smart Home Tracker finds that 20.5 million, or 44 percent of consumers who do not own or...
Alloy SmartHome Integrates Ring Alarm for Self-Guided Home Tours Tech

Alloy SmartHome Integrates Ring Alarm for Self-Guided Home Tours

Alloy SmartHome, a provider of smart home automation solutions for builders and developers and co-brand with SmartRent, is collaborating with Ring to integrate Ring Alarm now with Alloy SmartHome’s self-guided tour technology. This partnership helps homeowners and property managers easily offer and manage self-guided tours by...
Book Review: 'My Robot Gets Me – Take Smart Home Design to the Next Level' Tech

Book Review: 'My Robot Gets Me – Take Smart Home Design to the Next Level'

My Robot Gets Me – How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human by Carla Diana Harvard Business Review Press When you really think about it, a smart home really isn’t very smart. You tell Alexa “turn on the light” and the light in the room you are in turns on. You press a button on a wall-mounted keypad, and a...
Distributor Offers Direct Ring Integration for Elan Home Systems Tech

Distributor Offers Direct Ring Integration for Elan Home Systems

Blackwire has introduced a Ring Events Driver for Elan home automation systems, an addition to existing drivers for Control4 and URC systems. With this driver, integrators will be able to use push-button and motion events from Ring devices and integrate them into their Elan projects. Related: BlackWire Offers American Lighting...
Honeycomb is Like Alexa for Work Environments Tech

Honeycomb is Like Alexa for Work Environments

Honeycomb has devised a way for making a traditional business into a smart one, through a software hub that unifies an entire building’s technology onto a single mobile app. Founded in 2017 by D’Arcy Young, Honeycomb claims to be the first fully integrated operating platform for office buildings. "Think of Honeycomb as Alexa...
Flic Smart Buttons Can Now Trigger Amazon Alexa Commands Tech

Flic Smart Buttons Can Now Trigger Amazon Alexa Commands

Flic is the first external wireless button to add support for triggering Amazon Alexa routines. Speaking out loud to make your voice assistant turn off all lights, play your music, or start the heater in your car feels great initially. But the hundredth time that you yell the same command, hoping to be understood correctly, it can...
Page 1 of 37123...
© Residential Tech Today 2019. All rights reserved.
Produced by IPW