With the Apple Homekit simplifying the smart home, and Amazon's Alexa being integrated into smart appliances, the home automation industry isn't the only place making fast progress in 2016. As 4K becomes more affordable, a lot of changes will be heading towards the video surveillance industry,...
You probably don't wake up every morning thinking, "How do I adjust my sprinkling system today?". Skydrop, an EPA WaterSense-certified controller, replaces your traditional controller to add advanced features such as automatic weather-based adjustments. Once installed, Skydrop helps you figure out how much water your lawn needs, then...
It looks like the App Store made a lot more money than the Google Play store. App Annie has released its numbers for 2015 and according to the report, the Google Play Store had 100% more downloads than the Apple App store. Even though Google Play had more users overall,...
Whether you've left your pet home alone to go to work, or if you'd just like to know what's happening when you're not looking, petcams have been popular monitoring tools for over a decade. The problem with picking the "best petcam" is the variety of use cases that need...
Amazon's Alexa might bring your Star Trek-like "Smart Home" to life. The Apple Homekit isn't the only one trying to get your appliances to interact with each other. Alexa, Amazon's cloud-based voice assistant used in the Amazon Echo, went on sale last June of 2015. It has garnered generally positive reviews, but recently...
Apple wants HomeKit to give your smart accessories the capability of communicating with one another. With Homekit, you can control them with one interface, as well as allowing you to program them to perform synchronized actions. Right now you need to control each smart accessory individually. With Homekit, you can...
There are quite a few different types of cameras that you'll want to consider before setting one up. Would you like a wired or wireless one? Are you setting one up indoor or outdoor? What type of features would you like? Read on to learn...
Available on both Android and iOS, update 2.1 to the Camcloud mobile app is out! If you need more info, read on for all the details. Here are the feature highlights: - Enhanced Network Setup when adding a camera. - Ability to configure HTTPs for Axis, Sony, and Foscam cameras. - Delete...
Setting up a spy camera suggests that monitoring is being done because there’s a suspicion. Whether you believe your property is being trespassed, or there have been issues of vandalism in the past, you're going to want to use monitoring tools that can store your spy camera's recordings in the...
