Category: Home Automation

1/30/2017 · 6 min read · 1 comment

Smart Home Part Two: Smartthings, Amazon Echo, and Harmony Remote

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Check out my last smart home post, Making My House a Bit Smarter with SmartThings, to see how things got started. I’ve been slowly making additions to make my home smarter over the past year. I received an…

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7/13/2016 · 1 min read

Amazon Dash Button for Mentos

If ever there was a frivolous device it’s the Amazon Dash Button. Unfortunately, they made one I couldn’t turn down. You all know that I’m obsessed with Mentos, so when I discovered there was a Dash Button that…

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4/18/2016 · 8 min read · 1 comment

Making My House a Bit Smarter with SmartThings

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I have been thinking about how to make my home smarter for a little while now, but never really had a truly compelling reason to make the investment. The most common use of smart home devices seemed to…

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