Demo of AWS IoT Mailbox and Alexa Skill to check mail A simple project that demonstrates the power of IoT along with an Alexa Skill to check mail. It has 2 main components A Mailbox IOT device that acts as… Read More
Smart Home Product Recommendations
Smart Home Product Recommendations If you are looking for Smart Home and other useful home related product recommendations, following is the list of products that I have found useful. I will keep this updated as I find more useful products.… Read More
Introducing the Smart Home – Beyond The Buzz Course
Introducing the Smart Home – Beyond The Buzz Course Although Smart Home technologies have been around for quite some time now, I get these questions quite often. What is a Smart Home? Is it for normal users or for geeks?… Read More
5-way Smart Light Setup using Smart Switches and SmartThings
5-way Smart Light Setup using Smart Switches and SmartThings Overview In this post, I will walk through how to setup Smart Home lights in a 5-way configuration. I had searched several forums when I was doing this setup. I did… Read More
Welcome to Smart Home!
Welcome to Smart Home! The smart home technologies have been around for quite some time now and these are continuing to get better. However, many people are still not aware of these and are just not sure whether smart home… Read More