Best smart thermostat: Reviews and buying advice
The best smart thermostat will have an outsize impact not only how comfortable you are in your home, but also on your household budget....
Build a Web Connected Thermostat with a Raspberry Pi and and an iPhone
Web connected thermostats are great, but they're expensive. If you want to make your own, blogger and engineer Nooganeer shows how to build one...
Keen Home Smart Vents: The Perfect Temperature In Any Room
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every room of your home had the perfect temperature? This is a hard thing to accomplish since most standard...
ecobee Room Sensors™ vs. Nest Temperature Sensors
When we created the world’s first Room Sensor™, we introduced an innovative way for homeowners to help manage hot or cold spots, knowing that...
Adequate Air Quality or a Comfortable Temperature
That’s a choice we shouldn’t have to make.
We often take the air we breathe for granted. When you walk past an active construction site,...
5 Tips for Furnace Maintenance
Furnace maintenance tips to get you ahead of the heating season game.
Summer has officially come to an end, and the temperatures are steadily dipping....
Can Smart Thermostats Ruin Your Furnace?
It may sound preposterous, but some people are afraid smart thermostats are bad for heating and air conditioning systems. Here’s the good news: You...
The 2019 Thermostat ReThink
Back in 2017 I wrote a blog entry called “A Thermostat Weekend” – some weekend that turned out to be. Well, to cut a...
The Script
Regular reader will know about the script that Aidan Ruff and I originally developed to put Node-Red and several other packages onto the Raspberry...
The Thermostat Continues
I’m too deeply buried in R&D right now to fully develop another article on my thermostat but here is some info to add to...
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We’re still not getting voice assistants right
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The BBC is launching its own voice assistant, appropriately called ‘Beeb’ (though the efficacy of that...
Smart Lighting and How it Affects Mental Health in The Workplace
There are now 42 million connected US homes with fully 1 in 5 adults using a smart speaker.
Smart lighting is one of the most...
Edge Cases to Consider When Choosing an Invocation Name for Your Alexa Skill
An Alexa skill’s invocation name is the word or short phrase that is used to launch a skill. Great invocation names are memorable and...
