Amazon Echo Vs Samsung SmartThings – Who Should Power Your Smart home?
A lot of the attention around smart homes has been centred on the offerings coming out of Samsung, who’re aggressively moving in the direction of the smart home. Manufacturers have been seeking their...
View ArticleHow To Fix The Nest Battery Fault, After Nest Falls Over Again
Nest, the smart home thermometer owned by Google, has been struck with a series of bugs, which ave left disgruntled owners in cold homes. These things have a knack of being wonderfully timed, and sods...
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Netatmo Presence Might Be The Best Smart Home Security System Available
The Netatmo Presence smart home security system, offers perhaps the most advanced home security based system that we have seen so far, with a camera so perceptive that it genuinely amazes around what...
View ArticleThe Inside Story of Nest, where problems are brewing at Google’s $3B acqusition
Nest were billed as the the definition of the new ‘Alphabet’ corporate structure at Google, and when they were acquired by the search giants in 2014, they were also billed as the poster-child for a...
View ArticleSamsung SmartThings Died On Me – How Smart Are SmartHomes Really?
The smart home concept had appeared to be the darling of the technology industry – but suddenly the entire concept seems to be stalling. We recently ran into a major fault with the Samsung smart home...
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Forget Apple Acquiring Tesla, This Is Why They May Buy Netatmo
Apple to buy a fledgling smart home company which was once branded a ‘niche within a niche’? Pull the other one, right? Or maybe not – because Netatmo own one piece of radical technology which compares...
View ArticleThe 9 Best Smart Home Hubs – Who Should You Build Your Smart Home Around in...
Welcome to HomeTechStar.com, the home of unbiassed smart home analysis and today, we’re focussing on the very most important component of your smart home: The Smart Home Hub. We’re going to help you...
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The 11 Most Useful Amazon Echo Skills In The UK
The Amazon Echo and Amazon Echo Dot are forecast to be amongst the break-out products of Christmas 2016. Millions of us will be waking up Christmas morning to Amazon’s virtual assistant come bluetooth...
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7 Innovative Ways To Use Smart Home Security To Protect Your Home
Smart home security technology is the next wave of defence against home burglaries – but how can you set up a smart home security system that can thwart would be robbers before they even enter the...
View ArticleAre Smart Thermostats ‘worth it’& Do Smart Thermostats Really Save Money?
As 2017 begins to gather pace, it is becoming abundantly clear that smart home technology is the must have consumer gadget segment for the year. The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has...
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