A smart humidifier is a great addition to your smart home giving you the ability
As the popularity of the smart home balloons, more and more companies want a piece of the pie and understandably so. In HomeKit, we’ve been witnessing a surge in vendors bring their products to the platform with many offering unique perspectives and accessories with a growing number coming out of China. One such manufacturer is Terncy, otherwise known as Xiaoyan. This Zigbee-based home automation solution provides some affordable smart home standards as well as some one-of-a-kind devices that really make this system stand out. This article will serve as an introduction to the HomeKit-enabled Terncy Home Center and its lineup of accessories with more in-depth analyses of some individual devices to come.
In the world of home automation, there is a highly contentious debate, aside from platform, that keeps comment sections, threads, and feeds in business and that is: to hub or not to hub. One of these devices that has been steadily growing in popularity culminating most recently with its launch on Amazon in the U.S. is the Aqara Hub. In this post, we’ll look at some of it’s features, the good, the bad, and try to demystify this HomeKit accessory and see what all the hub-bub is about.
Lightstrips are a great way to add accent lighting to any number of places around the home and when done correctly, can add a dramatic flare and cozy up your humble abode. Though there are a number of HomeKit-enabled options out there at various price points, today we’ll be looking at Sylvania’s Smart+ offering comparing it to others in its class and hopefully helping you make a better purchasing decision.
We continue our journey through the world of smart light strips with the VOCOlinc LS2 SmartGlow Light Strip. This is the successor to the previously reviewed LS1 light strip and in this video we unbox, setup, explore the features, and compare the LS2 SmartGlow Light Strip with the LS1.
HomeKit accessories in general, and lighting accessories specifically, can be a bit pricey. VOCOlinc seems to be trying to buck this trend offering reasonably priced HomeKit accessories and their LS1 Smart Light Strip is no exception. in fact, it has some features that its more expensive counterparts have a hard time keeping up with. With physical specifications and app features, the VOCOlinc light strip is hard to pass up if you’re in the market for some accent lighting.
The new and improved L3 SmartGlow Light Bulb by VOCOlinc takes an already awesome product in the L1 light bulb and takes it several steps further. In this video, we unbox, set up, and explore the features of the L3 SmartGlow Light Bulb. As an added bonus, we compare the L3 to its predecessor as well as the equivalent Color and White Ambience bulb from Phillips Hue.
In this post, we take a look at and review VOCOlinc’s L2 Color Smart LED light bulb.
In this post, we take a look at and review VOCOlinc’s L1 Color Smart LED light bulb.
Could LIFX overthrow Hue as the reigning HomeKit smart bulb champion? In this video, we review their A19 Smart wiFi bulb.