A better home office sounds simple until you start connecting two computers, multiple displays, docks and a KVM switch. Brian Flanigan-Arthurs joins me for HGG694 to talk about what worked, what didn’t, and how Claude helped troubleshoot the setup. We also get into practical outdoor lighting, home security and a Tesla road trip that ended…
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Gavin Campbell is back, and this one turns into a tour of what happens when Home Assistant stops being a dashboard and starts becoming the operating system for the house. We talk through Gavin’s first Tesla, garage-door automation, water and leak monitoring, ESPHome projects, lawn and soil sensors, emergency power, camera systems and the growing…
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Erin Lawrence joins HGG682 to compare Ring 4K cameras, robot mowers, coffee gear, travel cameras, smart lighting and review workflows.
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David Selinger was an early employee at Amazon and led the R&D arm of Amazon’s data-mining and personalization team. He co-founded Redfin and founded RichRelevance, a company that offers personalized shopping experiences for large retail brands. He is now inventing the next BIG thing in home security – Deep Sentinel, an AI-based home protection service.…
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Erin Lawrence from Tech Gadget Canada helps us kick off the new year with some interesting Gadgets coming out of CES 2022! We have a look at the much-awaited glass break sensor from Ring for their Ring Alarm system. We also talk about the new Homey Bridge that will be One Bridge to Rule them…
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A storage configuration change triggered a synchronization loop that generated roughly six terabytes of internet traffic. Jim Collison and Paul Braren discuss cloud backup, Cox data limits, home network monitoring, IoT security, Rheem heat-pump water heaters, Tesla dashcam storage and other real-world technology lessons.
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