Home automation is not limited to controlling the interiors of your smart home but also the outdoors, be it your garage, lawn, garden, or backyard. This year has seen some interesting smart home accessories launched to control your outdoors – a concept we like to call smart garden automation. Smart garden automation has a line of […]

A home weather station sounds like a smart home accessory for meteorologists or weather junkies, but it actually isn’t. Home weather stations convey real-time insight into everything from wind speed and expected rainfall to solar radiation and UV levels. They give data that is more accurate than the local news and is specific to your […]

Imagine what it would be like to connect your car to your smart home. You would have gone a couple of steps ahead with home automation. With a connected car, you can control all your HomeKit-compliant accessories at home while driving – the lights, the doors, the thermostats, the switches. With home automation, your home […]

LED lights can enhance the mood of the entire home and one of the best and competitively priced smart home LED is the Sylvania Smart HomeKit-compliant LED Color Light Strip.  The starter kit includes three 2-foot LED strip segments, the Bluetooth radio module, and the power supply. Additional 2-foot segments sell in a two-pack and a […]

Hunter ceiling fans is the first home ceiling fans in the market that are compliant with Apple HomeKit. The Hunter Signal ceiling fan is Wi-Fi enabled and includes a built-in LED light and can be controlled by Siri from other Apple devices and can be integrated with other smart home accessories through the Home app.The […]

The Fibaro Motion Sensor is spherical, with a simple snap-on stand to keep it in place. It’s hard not to notice the similarity between the Fibaro Motion and an eye —which is even more noticeable when the light is on.The shell is able to rotate and separate to house the small CR123A battery hidden inside. […]

Now you can say “Siri, open my garage doors”. The LiftMaster MyQ Home Bridge is garage door opener that syncs with Apple HomeKit and is Siri-enabled. The MyQ bridge is relatively small at about the size of two iPhone Pluses side-by-side (it’s much thicker, but that’s the square dimension). It mounts directly to your wall in […]

There are lots of ways to put smart home tech to work, but one of the easiest and most compelling might be voice-activated control of your lights. iDevices Dimmer Switch does that job no matter which voice control platform you’re using. iDevices Dimmer Switch replaces traditional wall light switches to add smart home features to […]

Wemo is adding Apple HomeKit support, with the new Wemo Bridge joining the gap between the iOS smart home system and its remotely-controlled plugs and light switches. The Wemo Bridge is small so don’t expect it to take up too much space as it sits on the shelf beside your router. It weighs just under […]

Ikea is investing more into the Apple HomeKit Technology and coming with a very affordable outlet. Good news for all of us! IKEA to expand Tradfri HomeKit line with new $10 smart plug in October, report says http://ow.ly/25CE30lvSg8