A simple read on what is important to USA smart home buyers, although that does not always translate 1:1 to the Australian market (climate, elevation, humidity and product availability all drive needs or wants). Interesting to compare Channel 9’s #theblock and their smart home installations. I don’t think any of them have looked at atmospherics…
Congratulations on finding a house you like (layout, space, aspect, etc) and, more to the point, it has some or all of the smart features you were after. From my initial post (I’m Buying a “Smart Home” – Part 1) you should have the majority of your answers through an informative exchange with the Real…
IFTTT is definitely not a noise you make when you lift something heavy! What is it then? IFTTT, a.k.a. If This Then That, for the more technical among you, is a smart device App/Service solution allowing you to program an output from an input/event. Alright, enough of the lingo! What about an example. You have…
The glossy advert pimps the house as ‘smart’. You have a vision that it ticks all of your boxes – remote-this, auto-that … you start dreaming of life in this house. Snap out of it, how smart is ’smart’? You just don’t know until you visit the house, but the challenge is even at the…
Apparently we are holding onto our homes for longer, now at 10.5 years in Sydney, up 3+ years over the previous decade (refer https://www.corelogic.com.au/…/the-typical-home-in-australi…). I would bet if you owned a place for 10 years you will do some change to it more substantial than just a coat of paint. ‘Smartifying’ your place does not…
Yes I am sure there are lots of people who can correctly identify what the IoT acronym is – Internet of Things. The irony is that only now we believe all electronic gadgets are connectable. Years ago without WiFi or Bluetooth many electronic gadgets still talked to each other. Granted not as much as they…