Following CES 2016, PowerHouz the iOS Home Automation App just published an exhaustive list of Apple HomeKit Accessories. It includes available products ready for purchase as well as the Accessories announced for 2016. With HomeKit, Apple is providing a compelling Home Automation solution for its 1 Billion iOS Devices out there. However with only about […]

PowerHouz is a HomeKit Home Portal going beyond Home Automation to show us a glimpse of the Future So far most Home Automation users’ experiences have been frustrating; To control multiple accessories, users had to switch between numerous Apps and most brands would simply not work with each others. With HomeKit, Apple is finally providing […]

Since the launching of Apple Homekit, a bunch of apps had been released to the Appstore market regarding Home Automation. Here’s a glance of them, before entering the subject, we might add that a good number of these third- party apps fall quickly from contention. After we read an article from Jesse Hollington about smart […]

Apple Homekit wants to streamline home automation. In other words: it wants to make it easier for smart accessories to communicate, and for you to connect and manage all the smart accessories in your home from various manufacturers (Philips Hue lights, for instance, or Wink lights, as well as other speakers, thermostats, detectors, plugs, blinds, […]

In the spirit of the Fresh Start Effect, it’s not just your health and fitness habits that could do with a long, hard look now it’s January. We’ve seen a bunch of exciting smart home announcements and collaborations come out of CES and the first few weeks of 2016 in time to spruce up your […]

New HomeKit App at CES 2016: PowerHouz is an Apple HomeKit Home Portal going beyond Home Automation and showing us a glimpse of the Future of Home Automation So far most Home Automation users’ experiences have been frustrating; To control multiple accessories, users had to switch between numerous Apps and most brands would simply not […]

What is HomeKit? In case you missed it, HomeKit can be understood as kind of an Apple approved hardware platform developers can use to create iOS compatible smart home solutions that integrate easily and securely with Apple’s iOS. Apple has created frameworks for various devices, but roll out of these has been relatively slow. CES […]

CES Las Vegas is largest consumer technology shows in the world where most new tech products tend to get their first big consumer showcase. It has everything from car tech to audio to televisions and even a lot of futuristic gadgets that will never see mass production. Here are the 10 best things we managed […]

Apple’s decision to make Swift open source has the potential to intensify development of powerful newHomeKit solutions. Swift everywhere We know Apple wants to make Swift available to its CloudKit teams, blogger Lou Miranda said as much, “Think about Swift on CloudKit, Linux, app scripting, and maybe even client-side web,” he wrote. Apple’s OS X […]

A lot has happened in the last couple of years years since we first looked at Phillips’ Hue Connected Bulbs. Philips has greatly expanded its Hue ecosystem with a number of new lighting options that all tie into the company’s core Hue bridge, and in the process, Philips has become a major player in the […]