Christmas lights setup – The “Honey I love you” post

Today’s blog was brought to you by – “Honey! I love you”. Those words have always been a warning sign that something will be asked of me. For those who follow Elma’s Instagram, (insert shameless plug to her Instagram account @elmamirandamirza), she put up the Christmas trees and decorations around two weeks ago. And yesterday […]

Automating the kitchen lights – Magic!!

Welcome back, now that we are set up, I observed Elma and my parents behaviours. I noticed that they love walking into the kitchen and not turning off the light.. Typical. So that was my first experiment.  I placed a sensor in the kitchen, and connected it to smartthings, installed my smart light bulbs in […]

Getting the right home automation ecosystem

Well, now that we are all moved in, we needed to find something that would work with our Xplornet network and how getting a smart home setup on a 25Mbs connection would be a challenge. During our research, we found a lot of products that can do a lot of things, but we stuck with […]