Staying in the know
Notifications are an important part of any home automation setup. There’s no point in having sensors and cameras monitoring your home while you’re out if there’s no way of being alerted when something happens…
Where am I?
Presence detection is a fundamental part of home automation and it was the reason I first got started…
The Home Assistant Android app
There is an official Home Assistant app for Android, and I’ve been trying it out…
A further watch comparison
Following on from my Samsung Galaxy vs Fossil watch comparison post a couple of weeks ago, I decided to do a proper comparison of the fitness tracking…
If this… then what?
IFTTT – If This Then That – has angered users by switching to a subscription model, but they’re not the first to go down that route and I’m sure they won’t be the last…
Which watch?
When I reviewed calorie trackers recently I mentioned, in passing, that maybe I needed a dedicated fitness wearable…
Some Home Assistant growing pains
A couple of recent releases of Home Assistant have had breaking changes that have affected me, and they’re a result of some growing pains…
Samsung and its ecosystem
Ecosystems. Everyone has to have one now. There’s the Apple ecosystem, Google has one, as does, to a lesser extent, Microsoft. Now Samsung wants to join the party…
Watching what I eat
No sooner had I started using Samsung Health than Samsung announced the retirement of a key feature…
Living on the Edge
Microsoft has a new browser with an old name. The Edge browser, that’s been around since 2015, has been replaced with a brand new browser that’s also called Edge and it’s proving controversial…