How to Backup Your Smart Home Easily Without Breaking The Bank

Updated on 7th Jan 2021 15:14 in General, Smart

If you've ever used a computer, you will almost certainly know that they sometimes fail, just like anything else. The difference is usually that computers store important information that represents a significant loss when they disappear. A smart home is no different as the central controller is a computer that could fail, leaving you in a bad situation. The data on your controller could also be valuable if it contains all of your automations and settings. Let's take a look at some of the backup strategies we can use in a smart home to keep your data safe!

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4 Awesome Ways to Use Home Automation For Fitness

Updated on 31st Dec 2020 19:03 in General, Smart, Tutorial

Millions of people commit to living a healthier lifestyle every year, but we all know that this, unfortunately, doesn't always stick around for very long. Many of the problems encountered are due to the difficultly of adapting new routines that we aren't familiar with ahead of time. Lucky for us, nowadays we can use home automation to help us keep our commitment despite living a busy life where it can be difficult to manage everything. From remembering to work out to maintaining a healthier eating habit, there is an automation that can help!

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How to Use HomeKit With Home Assistant in 3 Easy Steps

Updated on 26th Dec 2020 23:19 in General, Home Assistant, Smart

Home Assistant is a truly amazing platform for fully customizable home automation with support for virtually everything you could ever possibly want to integrate. The only thing you can't integrate is usually a product that doesn't have any API or known communication protocol. Even then, there are often hacks available that allow integration despite the restrictions. Apple's HomeKit ecosystem is also quite amazing due to its tight integration with Siri and iOS. It would be great to integrate both Home Assistant and HomeKit together as they both offer their own awesome features and luckily, that's possible! Let's take a look at how we can link them together!

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5 Smart Home Challenges And How to Solve Them

Updated on 23rd Dec 2020 18:12 in General, Smart

As anyone who has started building a smart home will tell you, there are certainly some challenges that pop up in the process of setting up a smart home. While some of these are certainly issues unique to each user, there are quite a few common problems that are systematic in nature. Let's see the smart home challenges individuals and manufacturers will need to deal with to ensure widespread adoption.

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8 Rules For Building Successful Home Automation

Updated on 20th Dec 2020 20:05 in General, Smart

Building a smart home is really exciting and when you start you are eager to automate everything. If you've ever felt the need to automate the toilet or create complex systems to manage your lights, you might know that there is some sort of golden formula for successful automations. Some like to measure this using a "significant-other satisfaction index" which tends to be low when things go wrong or are a tad expensive. Let's take a look at 8 awesome rules for building great automations that everyone will like!

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