The popular smart voice automation devices like Amazon Echos and Google Home devices are very common in our households now. They are certainly useful and once you have them, you kind of can’t live without them The one major complain I have for them is: they are not very...
Articles with the Tag Home Automation
Let’s make our old garage door smarter!
As part of our home automation project, we would like to get a smart garage door opener, one that can give us remote access and also alerts when we are away from home. Have you ever have that question in your mind after you left your home and while...
Let’s automate with Alexa Routines
Smart voice assistance devices are wonderful, and definitely add values around our household. One of the advance feature available is to create a voice command that will do multiple things for you. I’ve already did a quick write-up on Routines in Google Assistant, so now, I’m going to do...
OK Google, let’s be brief!
I’ve been using both Google Assistant and Amazon Echo devices at home, they are very handy devices that will listen to your voice commands and execute them, specially when your hands are tight up like cooking, holding a baby, or taking a shower. I will write a few reviews...
Alexa in your car?
Voice assistance devices are quite handy and can provide a pleasant hand-free experience in places where your hands are occupied. So I was quite interested when I heard Amazon announcing the new Echo Auto, basically promise to bring Alexa into your car 🚗. Here is a link to the...
Need to turn lights on earlier if it is cloudy.
After implementing the turn lights on 20 minutes before sunset automation in hass.io, I was quite happy to see our evening lights come on and off automatically each night. But we encountered a few cloudy days in the past week, and it troubles me that the house gets too...
Z-Wave vs Zigbee
Home automation is quite popular now in most household and it is common to see retailers dedicate quite a lot of display space to them. I was in a local Best Buy store recently, and was delighted to find a few aisles of home automation products on display and...
To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
It is a cloudy morning today, but we are not talking about the weather. Cloud services are quite popular now and are available quite abundantly and down-to-earth. There are many discussion in the corporate world regarding availability, reliability, and security for enterprise level type of cloud services. But how...
Ready to make your home smarter?
Have you consider getting some of the advance techie stuff for your home? You probably already have them around without even knowing. Do you have an automatic garage door opener? Do you have a coffee machine that can be set to brew coffee at 6:30am every morning? that’s it,...