Smart Home Tech The Best Smart Home Prime Day Deals 2023! Amazon Prime Day 2023 is here on the 11th and 12th of July 2023! These are all of the best Smart Home Deals I have found for you today!
Smart Home Tech The King Of Video Doorbells - Reolink Video Doorbell Review The Reolink Video Doorbell features good image quality, person detection, PoE, motion zones, RTSP, Home Assistant integration and more!
Reviews This Smart Home Sensor Has Insane Features! - Aqara FP2 Review The Aqara FP2 boasts mmWave performance with zones, interference sources and fall detection, but does those advanced features come at cost?
Home Assistant Easily Backup & Migrate Your Zigbee Network! A new feature was added to Home Assistant that makes backing up and migrating your Home Assistant Zigbee network easier than ever, both on ZHA and Zigbee2MQTT - I will show you how, using the Home Assistant SkyConnect!
Smart Home Tech Why You Should(n't) Care About Matter For Your Smart Home Matter is the new Smart Home standard on the block - is it going to be a game changer for your smart home or have we seen similar promises before?
Reviews The SwitchBot Lock Is ALMOST Perfect But... The SwitchBot lock can be installed in minutes, is relatively affordable and can be retrofitted to a wide variety of locks, but it has one thing missing..
Reviews Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 Review The Aqara Radiator Thermostat E1 is a quick and simple way to achieve individual zone controlled heating - but are they worth the price tag?
Reviews How Did They Get This So Wrong!? - Sonoff NSPanel Pro Review The Sonoff NSPanel Pro is the latest release in the NSPanel line-up of Smart Home Scene Switches - but can it deliver on the promise that it's pro name suggests?
Reviews FINALLY Some Real Competition For Smart Curtains! - Aqara Curtain Driver E1 Review Aqara has launched a new wireless solution for smart curtains with Zigbee - but how does it stack up compared to the trusty SwitchBot Curtains? Let's find out!
Smart Home Tech Easy & Free Remote Access For Home Assistant! I have covered quite a few different remote access solutions for Home Assistant, either through port forwarding or setting up a VPN. But recently, it has emerged there is another way to do it...via a Cloudflare tunnel! It's easy to get started and best of all? It's free!
Reviews The Aqara FP1 Changes The Way We Automate Our Smart Homes The Aqara FP1 is a millimeter wave radar sensor that can accurately and reliably detect the presence of a person in a room and can help supercharge your automations!
Smart Home Tech Smart Home Protocols: ZigBee Explained! Zigbee is a word that has become almost synonymous with the Smart Home, but how does it actually work and what are some of the upsides and downsides to using Zigbee in our Smart Homes? Let's find out as we explore the Smart Home Protocol of ZigBee! Video How Does
Smart Home Tech Smart Home Protocols: WiFi Explained! WiFi is a term that is pretty much ubiquitous with all of us at this point - it's probably how the majority of you are even accessing this website! But if we focus on the smart home, how does WiFi work when it comes to smart home devices? Is there
Smart Home Tech 5 Reasons Your Smart Home Should Be Local Local control vs cloud control is such an important factor to consider when building out your smart home but, in my opinion, it’s a very easy choice - here are 5 reasons that a local smart home is just plain better! Video What is Local Control Speed When your
Reviews These Smart Light Switches Are Modular!? - Shelly Wall Switches Shelly has launched some new smart wall switches, that are unlike any other smart wall switches that I’ve seen before, in that they have a more modular approach to how they work by being able to mix and match different configurations to suit your specific needs.
Reviews Take Your Smart Home Heating To The Next Level! - Shelly TRV Review The Shelly TRV is a device that lets you automatically control the individual radiators in a room and has a bunch of great features, to help take your smart home heating to the next level.
Guides Flashing Sonoff SwitchMan M5 with ESPHome Sonoff has recently released some brand new affordable smart wall switches called the Sonoff SwitchMan M5, featuring an ESP32 inside – and you know what that means right!? ESPHome time! Let’s go through and show you step by step how to flash a custom firmware on the Sonoff SwitchMan, such
Guides Face Recognition Just Got Easier - Home Assistant Double Take Guide A few months ago I covered the ultimate NVR install [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bMQg20Iy4k&t=436s] (sorry no article on that, I got a bit…behind on posting!) which covered combining the object detection and recording capabilities of Frigate, with the face recognition of DeepStack to give
Smart Home Tech These Smart Blinds Are So Simple! - Soma Smart Blinds Review Soma Smart Shades can make your window blinds smart in just a matter of minutes, can recharge themselves using the sun and are super simple!
Home Assistant Home Assistant Yellow: First Impressions! Home Assistant Yellow has been absolutely smashing its crowdfunding goals since it first launched, reaching its initial target in under 5 days and currently its over 180% funded with 11 days left and I can see why: it’s a really attractive first attempt at some custom hardware from the
Reviews Easy & Affordable Smart Blinds in Minutes - Aqara E1 Roller Shade Driver Review Automated blinds and curtains are one of those smart home products that are so visually appealing, but can often be quite daunting to tackle. Aqara thinks they can help you solve this with their new Aqara E1 Roller shade, a Zigbee based roller shade that works with your existing blinds
Home Assistant Home Assistant Amber: Let's talk about it! Home Assistant Yellow has just been announced as an all-in-one hub that has all you need to get started with a smart home, but also offers flexibility for future upgrades as your smart home grows. Let’s discuss the hardware, specs and features, as well as what this means for
Reviews The BEST Wired Doorbell - Amcrest AD410 Review The Amcrest AD410 features some really great features such as Person Detection, local and cloud storage, RTSP and so much more, but is it any good?
Reviews SafelyTeam Wireless Alarm System Review SafelyTeam released a new Wireless Security System that promises more than just home security, such as Smart Home integration and safety but can it deliver?
Reviews Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) Review: The New Way to Track Sleep? Intro Google’s 2nd generation of it’s Nest Hub just landed boasting a few new features such as sleep tracking and gestures, a similar if not familiar design and a new lower price than the model it replaces, but is it worth your hard earned money and how do