SmartThings Archive
Home Automation: 1 Year Later
Written on November 6, 2015
in Geek Culture, Geek Home, Internet of Things, Technology

A year ago I posted about how my husband and I were going to start automating our home using the SmartThings platform. At that time, we just had two lights automated. We honestly didn’t do much with it most of the year (which is good, since Samsung didn’t provide the best upgrade
I love my ridiculous remote.
Written on October 9, 2015
in Geek Culture, Geek Home, Internet of Things, Product Reviews, Reviews, Technology

Update 12/20/2018: Logitech has disabled local APIs for their Harmony remote. I can no longer recommend this product. In the recent past, I scoffed at expensive remotes. I remember about five years ago, scoffing at my husband when he bought at $90 smart remote during a Woot Off (to be fair, it was
Migrating to SmartThings 2.0
Written on September 16, 2015
in Geek Home, Internet of Things, Product Reviews, Reviews, Technology

About a year ago I wrote about how we started our home automation project by buying a SmartThings hub. Samsung has just now released the new version of the of the hub, and we decided to pre-order. I just finished the migration process and thought I’d let you know how it went.