The world of universal remote controls has been in a funk for the last few years. Only Savant has managed to produce a decent voice remote and Control4’s Neeo launch in 2019 felt rushed and incomplete.
When Snap One announced its Halo remote control at last Fall’s CEDIA Expo, I couldn’t help getting my hopes up again. Since...
YoLink can serve as a smart home range extender on larger properties, with a range of a quarter mile between devices and the hub
A limitation of most of today’s most popular wireless smart home technologies is distance. Most Wi-Fi operates at 2.4GHz and 5 GHz. Devices connecting to a Wi-Fi network at 2.4GHz have a practical range...
I love the latest generation of integrated camera/speaker bars. They’ve made remote meetings much more bearable and lifelike since the onset of COVID-19. If we can thank the pandemic for anything, it has to be what NYU professor Scott Galloway calls, “10 years’ worth of innovation in three months” during the Spring of 2020....
Recently I wrote an article on alternative user interfaces for the smart home (that article can be found here). While it covered a wide range of products, one that was not included was the new Bond Sidekick keypad, from a company called Olibra.
Olibra’s focus is “thoughtfully connecting certain often-overlooked household...
According to MoneyTransfers.com, “24% of Americans are subscribed to two paid streaming services, 23% subscribed to three, and 18% four. The total cost of subscriptions to every major streaming service would be $807.83 per year.
With the holidays fast approaching, more people will be buying smart TVs and streaming media players....
I’ve been frustrated and occasionally delighted (but mostly frustrated) by the little black boxes we use in the custom installation channel to send out HD video from a stack of gear in the main AV rack across the room (or house) to its intended destination while praying that the signal makes the journey in one...
Smart home technology can make a home more convenient to live in, more energy efficient, safer, and much more. But, if you just go around replacing all of the existing appliances, switches, lights, and window coverings with new smart products, then you are also probably adding a lot of otherwise functional products into a landfill....
Everything Set uses AI to monitor how changes in the way devices connected to a homeowner’s network act can signal malicious activity.
Network security in smart homes is a fast-growing problem. New smart home devices, especially with the introduction of the soon to be released Matter protocol, are moving to the internet of things...
We have the pandemic to thank for so many innovations. Who could forget groundbreaking life hacks such as virtual meetings, virtual happy hours, and virtual sewing bees? So many virtual opportunities to be virtual. The trouble is, we’re all burned out on virtual. In-person is what we’re craving now. Anything short of a face to face...