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I recently bought an Aqara vibration sensor with the plan of affixing it to our dining room table for the purpose of setting up a…

I’m excited to report that I managed to get my first few flows live in Homey. I connected the Aqara T1 LED bulb to both…

Learn more about Automated Home here. Sorry for not sharing updates for a while. It turns out people aren’t exaggerating when they tell you having…

Nearly 3 months after launching their botched app update, Patrick Spence has finally issued an apology for what happened and shared a timeline for getting…

News is breaking that Korean LG (stock XKRX) has acquired 80% of Dutch Athom B.V. According to the Korea Times, financial details of the deal…

I recently bought a Samsung 8K TV, a Sonos Arc soundbar and a Sonos Sub Gen 3. It wasn’t cheap, but after slumming it on…

This is just a short post to show that I really am starting off my smart home journey from the beginning. No smart hub, no…

The Automated Home Blog started life in 1996, so 2021 saw it reach its 25th Anniversary. The top 20 most popular posts from the past…

I’ve referred back to this post about a Smart Home Utopia many times since I wrote it 14 years ago. In the intervening years, there…

With our student getting ready to return home it was time to setup the den upstairs. The timing couldn’t have been better because BenQ got…