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The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Is your house dark when you arrive home? If you have landscape lighting to make your home look more appealing and to light up the way to your front door in the evening, it doesn’t really work if the lights are off when you arrive. Landscape lighting may look sexy, but...
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions (Disable UPnP on your home network)
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), a feature of most home networks, is bad, and should be turned off. If you know what UPnP is, understand why it is very dangerous to allow it to be used, and have already disabled it your home network, your parent’s home network,...
Is Your HomeKit ‘Glass’ Half-Empty or Half-Full?
New Year’s Resolutions For Apple In just a few weeks, we’ll be reading lots of advice about making New Year’s Resolutions for the coming year. I’ve got an interesting angle - I’m going to list my wish list now for Apple’s HomeKit so when the product managers and...
Disintegrate Your Home Automation System
I’ll admit it - I like online shopping, especially during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Even though as a Smart Home installer I have access to some equipment through distributors and wholesale sources, I still find I can usually get better deals online. Full...
Are You Getting The Right Tech Support for Your Smart Home?
Who you gonna call? When something goes wrong with your Smart Home, who are you going call? If you’re like most of us, you are probably spoiled by the reliability of modern computers, smartphones, and tablets. When we have a problem, assistance is only a phone call...
Are You On Krack? (Don’t Panic: Two Simple Steps To Protect Your Home Wi-Fi Network)
Danger, Will Robinson! Within the last week, the tech media has been obsessed with spreading fear about a new and potentially very dangerous attack against all Wi-Fi networks. The so-called “Krack attack” is certainly something you should be aware of, but it is...