Anyone into connected home devices has already felt the pain of having many great devices in isolation but no real fabric that glues them together. Over the last few months, I've worked, on and off on a project that attempts to be a customized fabric for connected home devices.
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Read MoreEarlier this week I ordered a Logitech Pop. I had a small use case where to pop would work great. We have a small lamp with a Phillips Hue bulb that we use when our daughter wakes up in the night. Typically, we use HomeKit to turn the light on and off, but HomeKit is so spotty as to be impossible to use and using the Hue app is cumbersome in a frantic run to get a crying baby. I learned about the Pop and figured I could have an extra button next to the light switch that we could just tap on our way in and out, easy enough.
Read MoreI’ve been into this home automation thing for some time now. Any device on the market, I’ve most likely tried it already and there is an equally good chance that there is one functioning in my house. Most of the home automation products available for the mass market are still pretty user-hostile and ever so expensive.
Read MoreI received an August Smart Lock as a wedding gift last year. At the time, my wife and I were renting a townhouse but we decided to go forward and install the Smart Lock (This is one of the great things about many of the connected home devices; the ease at which you can install and uninstall the devices.) Installation was a breeze.
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