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Consumer Demand for Connected Home Products Slows Dramatically in First Half of 2015 and Continues Rapid Drop Off

Interesting read……. it does seems ever since HomeKit/Apple and Smartthings/Google made their big splash over a year ago, it is apparent the rest of the market is just waiting to see what Apple and Google will really do. With no…[Read more]

love, love, love the Iris System Monitor, kudos to the site owner.

In the Iris System monitor do you know which server is the video server? What I seem to have the most issues with is the video portion of the Iris System. I know they are using a third party company to handle their video but I would love to see the up/downtime of the video…[Read more]

I learn by just throwing things out into the ether, so here it goes here. Security of the home automation and security network has always been a concern but it is growing as the market expands.

I have heard issues of a hub (z-wave) being forced into secondary mode. The reason given is that the communication on the z-wave is so active that it will…[Read more]