Category: Smart Home & Audio Video Systems

In early March, three nights of high humidity and overnight temperatures dropping into the upper thirties produce a pattern in…

The lot is a shade over an acre and a half, with the house set back from the road, a…

Three minutes into the kitchen smoke from a forgotten pan, the smart smoke detector hasn't triggered. The smoke is visible.…

At minute thirty-seven of the film, the helicopter passes overhead. In the cinema downtown, the audience felt it. In the…

It is sixty-eight in the bedroom. The schedule said seventy. The household woke cold. The smart thermostat ran no schedule…

Three estimates on the kitchen counter: $38,000, $42,000, and $61,000 for the same nominal scope of work covering whole-home audio,…

The first thunderstorm of June rolls through on a Saturday night. The household closes the patio doors and listens to…

The kitchen and the great room aren't separate rooms anymore. The dining area opens to the kitchen, the kitchen opens…

The drywall is original to the 1985 build, the household is committed to the smart-home installation, and the question on…

At 5:47 AM the bedroom is dark and the household is half-awake. A whispered command, set alarm for seven, is…

It is six thirty-two AM. The east-facing bedroom is bright. The shade should have lowered automatically before sunrise. The schedule…

December evening, gloved hands, three grocery bags. The smart lock should unlock to a voice command. The voice assistant doesn't…

It's 10:14 PM on a Tuesday and the house is closing for the night. A single voice command runs the…

The "Good Morning" scene was supposed to fire at 8:30 AM Sunday. The hallway sconces were supposed to come up…

Six weeks ago, a notification appeared on the smart-bulb app: a firmware update was available. The household tapped Later. The…

What does a home theater actually do that a regular living-room TV doesn't? The answer becomes visible at 9:47 PM…

The kitchen speaker isn't playing what the den is playing. Nobody changed the source. The household didn't issue a command.…

Two displays sit side by side at the showroom, both playing the same nature documentary at the same brightness from…

On the basement floor, late Sunday afternoon: a thousand-foot spool of Cat6, four boxes of unopened smart-home hub kits, two…

Two weeks after the bicycle disappeared from the side yard, the household pulls up the security camera footage to figure…

The same album sounds different on the couch than it does standing in the kitchen doorway six steps away. The…

The homeowner stands in front of the open switch box on a Saturday afternoon. Three black wires, two whites, a…

At eleven o'clock at night, the budget spreadsheet has forty-seven rows and the household is on round three of moving…

The tablet on the kitchen counter loses its connection at 7:42 PM on a Wednesday. Within ninety seconds, the smart…