45 Best Smart Home Automation Ideas
Here are 45 of the best smart home automations you can setup yourself quickly and easily.
Chris Colwill
200 Things to Ask Alexa: The Ultimate Easter Egg List
Here are 200 funny and cool things to ask Alexa.
Smart Home Hub: Do You Need One?
As your smart home begins to grow, you may find there are limitations with relying on your voice assistant to manage everything for you, but do you really need a smart home hub?
Starting a Smart Home: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
In this complete beginner’s guide to starting a smart home, we’ll cover what you need to consider when first getting started and help you set up your very own smart home.
Best Video Doorbell With Local Storage: Buyer’s Guide
Video doorbells can be considered one of the most useful smart home devices, allowing you to see who is at your door from just your smartphone or tablet. The only problem is that many of them want you to pay extra for cloud storage to keep all of the recordings.
Best Router for a Smart Home: A Complete Buyer’s Guide
A router can be considered the backbone of a home network, supporting all of the devices that connect to it. Smart home devices that rely on Wi-Fi are no exception and need a good quality router that can support many devices at once.
Smart Home Without Internet: Will it Still Work?
Given that most devices these days require an Internet connection to even function, how would a smart home stand up without access to the Internet?
How Does Zigbee Work? Everything You Need to Know
Zigbee is one of the most popular choices of communication protocols that allow different smart home devices from different manufacturers to work with each other, but how exactly does it work and what makes it so good for over 400 companies to want to use it?
17 Reasons You Should Buy a Smart Thermostat
Smart thermostats are considered the number one smart home device to buy if you are looking to make the biggest savings in your energy bills each month, but they provide a lot of other benefits such as being able to control them remotely and potentially even making money from having one.
17 Reasons You Should Buy a Smart Lock
Smart locks are growing in popularity and for a good reason; they bring a lot of benefits that other smart home devices can’t provide such as the ability to keep a log of who is entering and leaving your home and at what times.
How to Make Alexa’s Voice Quieter
There have been times where I have had Alexa playing some music through my Echo device at just the right volume, yet when I ask her a question it feels like she is shouting back at me and it is simply too loud. This got me thinking on the ways to make Alexa’s voice quieter and whether the volume of Alexa’s voice can be different to the volume of music being played.
23 Creative Uses for Smart Plugs
Many people will use a smart plug for simply turning on and off a lamp through the app or by using their voice, but they have so much more potential that isn’t being recognized.