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Guides, tutorials, and tips to help you get the most out of your smart home.
How to Build a Bluetooth controlled Home Automation Setup Using Arduino
Do you want to automate your home? Ever wished to control your appliances with a swipe on your phone? Or do you want to learn how to build automation device for yourself? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how you can control a lamp, fan or any other electrical appliance in your space using an Arduino. […]
8 Dec 2017
Zone Type Explanations for D3D security system
Now that we have learnt the basic process of how to configure various sensor like the door/windows sensor, the PIR motion sensor and the smoke sensor, it is very important to know as to which zones should the sensors be placed for the intended and correct functioning at the right time. Each of the D3D […]
10 Jul 2016
How to configure the D3D PIR Motion sensor?
In a smart security system, the PIR motion sensor has a very vital role to play. The motion sensor when installed in the restricted areas of your home or areas that require higher security, will let you know instantly if there is any unwanted movement taking place. Just like the door/window sensor, the motion sensor […]
10 Jul 2016
How to configure D3D smoke sensor?
Smoke detectors have proven to be extremely useful in industrial applications and also in various other kind of home applications too. In case of any mishaps and accidents, the smoke detectors inform the intended person quickly so that they can soon take the necessary repair action and prevent from any further damage to occur. The […]
10 Jul 2016
How to configure the Door/Window sensor for D3D D9 security system?
The D3D D9 security system comes with a range of sensor equipments like the PIR motion sensor, the door/window sensor, the smoke detector sensor, the gas leakage sensor etc. which work in co-ordination with the central unit and notify the users in case of any unwanted action taking place. The door/window sensors of the D3D […]
10 Jul 2016
How to configure D3D security system: An Extensive Guide
Home Security turns out to be one of the most crucial areas to be addressed in Home Automation. The advancements in technology and concepts like real-time tracking has scaled up the level of home-security to a considerable extent. One always looks for a security system that keeps the user informed at the very moment the […]
10 Jul 2016
How to setup Fibaro system location and give Permissions and Access Control to other users?
Setup the Home Center location In order to make your Fibaro Smart Home experience more responsive and intuitive, assigning a location to your Fibaro Home Center will really be helpful to you. With this you Home Center can keep a track of your date and time accurately to every second and respond according to the […]
9 Jul 2016
How to Pair LIFX with IFTTT?
The actual crux of enjoying the merits of Home Automation lies in optimising the home automation system installed at your place. With LIFX, you not only get a range of intelligent lighting solutions with some pre-defined scenes and schedules that cater to your every mood and occasion, but also lighting solutions that help you optimize […]
9 Jul 2016
How to reset Amazon Echo?
Whether its you want to know your daily news reports, listen music on-the-go, order a Uber, change your room lightings for your movie time etc., Amazon Echo is a one-stop solution for your interactive home. The Amazon Echo comes with the company’s own Wi-Fi based – Alexa digital virtual assistant, which stays in the always-on mode. All […]
9 Jul 2016
How to connect Amazon Echo to Wi-Fi?
In order to make your Home Automation experience more interactive, Amazon has arrived with new device called the Amazon Echo. The Amazon Echo comes pre-installed with the company’s own digital virtual assistance “Alexa” , which not only listens to your voice commands but also help you schedule your tasks based on your daily lifestyle. Once you are […]
9 Jul 2016
Learn how to create scenes and schedules using the LIFX App
Controlling your LIFX Bulbs is all together a whole new experience. In addition to offering a remote accessibility to control your entire home lightings, LIFX bulbs gets you with variety of new scenes for your every occasion. Whether its having a great movie experience with your friends on a weekend, a party some evening, or […]
9 Jul 2016
How to do hardware reset of LIFX Bulbs?
Every electronic device is subjected to show vulnerable behaviour which might occur during some unknown/unwanted changes occurring in the device due to reasons that maybe unheard/unknown/difficult to figure. So could be the case with LIFX bulbs. Sometimes, it might happen that the firmware update stops midway or the command through Wi-Fi gets noised cause of […]
9 Jul 2016
How to Integrate LIFX with Amazon Echo?
Home Automation Intelligence these days is becoming more interactive and intuitive. In addition to offering users a unique lifestyle and comfort, it is becoming very much a part of own living taking care of your requirements just like your loved ones do. The beauty about Home Automation is that you can actually talk to the […]
9 Jul 2016
How to Integrate Yale Real Living Touchscreen Deadbolt with SmartThings?
Yale – one of the most renowned brands in security locking systems, has got several products in the Home Automation segment offering some of the very unique solutions to users ensuring top layer of on-board security. The Yale security solutions for Home Automation cater to wireless solutions and even offer easy third-party-device compatibility and pairing. […]
9 Jul 2016
How to add Devices to Logitech Harmony Elite?
Logitech Harmony serves as a one-stop solution to cater to almost all of your Home Automation requirements. Its across the brands integration facility helps you controls various things like lighting systems, speakers devices and other electrical appliances like TV, Air Conditioners, Laptops etc. This helps you to reduce the complexities of using multiple remote-controls, dedicated […]
15 Jun 2016
How to Setup Logitech Harmony Elite?
The basic concept of Home Automation is about providing the user with a seamless experience by integrating several of your home electrical appliances, entertainment devices etc. over one controlling platform, and making it easier for the user to control them even from distant locations. The Harmony Elite from Logitech features similar kind of functionality which […]
15 Jun 2016
Features of Yale Real Living Touchscreen Deadbolt
The Yale Real Living Touchscreen Deadbolt comes with very elegant design, an intuitive touchscreen operation, wireless connectivity, voice features and some very cutting-edge capabilities. The lock comes with a variety of features and personalised settings for multiple users ensuring that the top-level security is thus maintained. The lock also offers some of the very handy […]
24 May 2016
How to install Yale Real Living TouchScreen Deadbolt?
Home automation plays a vital role when it comes in ensuring the safety of your house. In addition to triggering of various motion sensors or door/window sensors, Home Automation can be further extended to easy locking/unlocking of your door units. One of the most challenging tasks for the working people today is managing the keys […]
23 May 2016
How to Integrate your OSRAM LIGHTIFY with Samsung SmartThings?
Under its LIGHTIFY range of products, OSRAM offers a variety of lighting solutions right from lamps and luminaries to RGBW flex strips and even RGBW Garden mount lights. All the LIGHTIFY range of products from OSRAM operate with the Wi-Fi protocol and easy-to-use LIGHTIFY App. [Read: How to setup OSRAM LIGHTIFY?] This lets users perform various functions […]
22 May 2016
How to Setup OSRAM LIGHTIFY?
Having pioneered the lighting industry for years, OSRAM has now arrived with its new and unique home automation lighting solutions under the LIGHTIFY brand. The LIGHTIFY range of products offer a wide selection among lamps and luminaries, flexible LED strips and garden lights, thus providing users the solution for the perfect decor of the home […]
22 May 2016
How to setup Remote Access in Fibaro?
The good thing about the Fibaro Home Automation system is offering you a one-stop-one-interface solution to control all your Home Automation devices. In addition to this, the system also gives its users the flexibility to have control over the system from Remote location if they have the internet connection. Once you’re done with the basic […]
2 May 2016
How to setup Fibaro Home Center 2?
Fibaro is one of the leading brands in Home Automation system and has its devices in the market that cater to various functionalities like lighting control, music control, audio-video controls, etc. Fibaro offers a complete holistic solution that cater to your daily lifestyle by easy setting up of events through their easy-to-use smartphone/tablet application which […]
2 May 2016
How to setup Philips Hue Lights?
Philips has arrived with its innovative new bulbs for Home Automaton launched under the “Hue” series. The entire Philips Hue range features a variety of lighting solutions that helps you to set the perfect mood for every occasion. Whether its your weekend parties or a cozy movie experience, the Philips Hue lighting solution will help […]
1 May 2016
How to Control Philips Hue with Samsung SmartThings?
Philips has arrived with some very smart LED lighting solutions in home-automation and has its own range of “Philips Hue” Lightings that is supported with its own dedicated hub and app control. The good thing about the ZigBee controlled devices from Philips is its ability to pair with third-party manufacturers like Samsung SmartThings and respond […]
28 Apr 2016
Main features of the SmartThings App
The Samsung SmartThings has got a dedicated app control to sync its Hub to its various multipurpose sensors and also to control third-party devices by pairing them. Through the SmartThings app, you can perform several actions like managing light colors, setting up security checks, activate your door/window sensors, operate your locks, setup schedules and a lot […]
27 Apr 2016
How to Add Devices to SmartThings Hub?
Samsung SmartThings kit come with a range of various application sensors that cater to motion sensing, security and other features. The central controlling Hub communicates with other SmartThings devices and perform the assigned action/responses accordingly. Once you are done with the basic installation process of creating account and setting up the Hub, here is how […]
26 Apr 2016
Getting started with SmartThings – Account, Hub and Things
Most of the home-automation kits available in the market today work on three major communication protocol – IP(Wi-Fi), ZigBee and Z-Wave. As a result, with so many manufacturers having devices under these three protocols, it becomes easy to have cross-compatibility of devices across brands. Samsung, similarly has its own home-automation kit called SmartThings which supports […]
25 Apr 2016
How to Connect Amazon Echo with Samsung SmartThings?
When connected with Samsung SmartThings, Amazon Echo allows you to access your home lighting as well as other sensing equipments like door/window sensors, motion sensors etc. with your voice. Together, they make a sweet couple, with Alexa providing an easier and seamless way to control smart home devices, without the need for a smartphone, tablet or any […]
22 Apr 2016
How to Setup Yeelight Bulb and Yeelight Lightstrips?
Home Automation has changed the way you think about how to control your electrical home lightings/appliances. Form triggering lights remotely to changing colours from your smartphone, the possibilities are infinite. If you have recently purchase Yeelight products (bulb/lightstrip) and want guidance on how to set it up, this guide is for you. Don’t worry. You won’t […]
21 Apr 2016
How to Connect Smartphone to Amazon Echo?
Amazon Echo helps you make your Home Automation experience more unique in a way as it works in co-ordination with several other third-party devices. It can communicate with other devices over Wi-Fi [Read: How to connect Amazon Echo to Wi-Fi?] and help you control your home lightings besides many other things. However, the good thing is […]
21 Apr 2016
How Does a IoT based Home Automation System Work?
The concept of Home Automation aims to bring the control of operating your every day home electrical appliances to the tip of your finger, thus giving user affordable lighting solutions, better energy conservation with optimum use of energy. Apart from just lighting solutions, the concept also further extends to have a overall control over your […]
20 Apr 2016
Extended List of Home Automation Devices
The concept of Smart Homes has made our living spaces more interactive and responsive to the needs of users. Home Automation not only helps to reduce the complexity of managing all your electrical appliances within your home, but also give a personalised feel of living as per the daily routine of the user. The Home automation […]
20 Apr 2016
What is Home Automation?
With the rapid advancements in technology taking place in the 21st century, more and more devices used in our day-to-day activities are getting integrated, intuitive and responsive. As the name suggests, Home Automation means connecting several of your home devices over a common communication channel and giving users the overall control of all the connected […]
20 Apr 2016
How to Pair Your Amazon Echo Remote?
The Amazon Echo comes baked-in with its digital virtual assistant Alexa that helps you to do tasks on-the-go just with your voice command requests. The ability of Amazon Echo to integrate with third-party devices [Read: How to integrate Amazon Echo with Samsung SmartThings?] lets users operate several of their smart home appliances through voice commands. However, […]
20 Apr 2016
How to setup Amazon Echo?
With the rapidly progressing technology, home automation is getting more interactive and user-friendly. In addition to controlling all your devices just with one-touch smartphone operability, home automation devices come with voice recognition features, wherein you can actually talk to devices and request them to perform the function of your choice through voice commands. Amazon has […]
20 Apr 2016
Z-Wave Technology: The New Standard in Home Automation
Z-Wave technology is the new wireless communication protocol for home automation devices. Used in a variety of smart home applications like lighting, security, entertainment and others, it’s one of the upcoming new communication standards in the world of Internet-of-Things (IoT). It’s currently being used by more than 300 plus manufacturers and thousands of devices, making it one of […]
20 Apr 2016
Setup Solar Schedule with LIFX Bulbs
Since its inception, home automation has come a long way. Intelligent lighting is no longer about just turning lights on/off from your smartphone, tablet or computer. It has become much more reactive to contextual information, allowing users to conserve energy, without being actively involved In other words, smart lighting devices are now reactive to external events, […]
12 Apr 2016
Installing LIFX bulb: An Easy Four Step Guide
If you’ve just got your LIFX bulbs want to know go ahead with installing them in your home, here’s your startup guide. Don’t worry. Installing LIFX bulb and configuring them to work with your tablet/smartphone is an extremely simple process, and you’ll be done in less than two minutes. Step 1: First Download the LIFX app on your […]
30 Mar 2016
What automation possibilities does Fibaro offer?
FIBARO is one of the leading brands in the world of Home Automation and caters to a wide range of smart home solutions like smart lighting, smart security, smart entertainment etc. For each of the applications, FIBARO has got a range of dedicated products that co-ordinate and communicate with each other under a common network, and […]
30 Mar 2016
What is ZigBee Protocol?
ZigBee protocol provides low-cost, low power solution for remotely controlling and monitoring smart equipments, fleet applications, home automation systems, medical devices and other compliant systems. It is used by leading manufacturers of semiconductor devices, technology firms, wireless communication devices as the de-facto communication protocol. In this article, we’re going to share some basics about what exactly is zigbee protocol, […]
30 Mar 2016
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