March 22, 2018May 27, 2018Connected Home, Cortana Cortana, IFTTT, Invoke all together now Microsoft just announced that Cortana now works with IFTTT. Cortana has had an appalling lack of third party skills (still does) but […]
February 17, 2018Alexa, Connected Home, Cortana Alexa you aren’t doing very well with weather forecasting All of my Alexa enabled devices are configured with the correct geo location, but I’ve had doubts for some time as to […]
October 27, 2017March 24, 2018Connected Home Sonos One Meets Alexa It’s not my fault that I’m very, very particular about how my music sounds. My dad was an audiophile who originally owned […]
October 25, 2017March 24, 2018Connected Home Harman Kardon Invoke Cortana Speaker Harman Kardon launched its Invoke Cortana powered speaker on October 22, 2017 into an arena dominated by Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. […]
April 21, 2017Alexa, Amazon Echo, Connected Home, Home Automation Change Hue Light Colors with Alexa Hue and Lifx bulbs have been supported with Amazon’s Echo/Alexa ecosystem for a long time. One of the missing elements, the ability […]
March 16, 2017Connected Home, Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 10, Windows Insider Get Hue or LIFX light alerts for Dona Sarkar Build Tweets If you’re a hard core Windows Insider, you’ll want to be one of the first to know when new Insider Builds are […]
June 26, 2016Alexa, Amazon Echo, Connected Home Alexa, Sonos, Smart Things, Harmony, Oh My So I wasn’t invited to the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Alexa beta and I have some concerns about how Sonos activities are going […]
May 9, 2016Amazon Echo, Connected Home, Home Automation Alexa, turn on my home theater–AnyMote Awesomeness Heaven forbid that I should have to lift a handheld remote in my very Smart Home. I got to thinking that with […]
May 7, 2016Amazon Echo, Connected Home, iPhone Taking Alexa with me everywhere using Lexi Just yesterday I was away from home and thinking I needed to add a few things to my Alexa powered shopping […]
May 5, 2016Amazon Echo, Connected Home Alexa, change colors on my Hue stuff (thanks Yonomi) I love my Alexa enabled Connected Home and I love the Yonomi App. Amazon’s Echo Smart Home covers an amazing number […]