Honeywell WiFi Thermostats Obey Your Voice Commands
Amazon Alexa listens for how you’d like to set your home’s thermostats. Making sure your home is comfortable should be easy, which is why every Honeywell-connected thermostat can now be controlled simply with the power of voice, using Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like Echo, thanks to a new Alexa Skill. By simply saying “Alexa,” customers with […]
Sonos: The Heart of the Connected Home?
Integration with Lutron, Crestron, Alexa, and others enables Sonos music to synch with lights, shades and other amenities. It’s official. Sonos now integrates with third-party home automation systems. Of course, smart-home systems have integrated with Sonos for at least a decade, but now they have the love and support of the manufacturer itself. Control4, Crestron, Deutsche Telekom’s QIVICON, iPort, Lutron and Savant are Sonos’s first […]
What Can Your Lights Do? Smart Lighting Makes Everything Better
Forget about boring on and off, a control system can make your lights part of your lifestyle. We spent four hours learning to turn lights on and then another four hours turning them off. It was a joke, but there’s actually some truth to it because among the things we practiced was smart lighting programming […]
4 Smart Home Technologies That Can Reduce Your Electricity Bills
How to prevent your home from billing you behind your back. I bet you remember as a child your mother yelling, “Turn off the lights!” As much as we all thought it was a part of the script moms are given, there really was a rhyme and reason why she said those things on an […]
