Home Automation
Clare Controls Goes On-Wall, Entry-Level
Clare Controls, the supplier of professionally installed home-automation products, is expanding its customer base with the $399 CLIQ.mini, which can be mounted on a...
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Amazon Welcomes Echo’s Little Siblings: Dot & Tap
Amazon is bringing the capabilities of its $170 Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant to two new products: the Tap and the Dot....
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URC, Bose, Amazon, Brita Add Smart-Home Scenarios
Smart-home technology isn’t standing still, thanks to developments from a variety of suppliers offering new applications and control technologies. URC, the supplier of professionally...
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Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit Tops In Smart-Home Buzz
Amazon Echo and Apple HomeKit are tops in mindshare among consumers who go online to discuss smart-home ecosystems, while interest is waning in the...
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Samsung Printers Join Amazon Dash Cache
Select Wi-Fi printers from Samsung are the latest devices to join Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system. By signing up for the program through Samsung’s...
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SkyBell Ringing In The New
SkyBell, the Wi-Fi video doorbell maker, is trying some new things. The 2.5-year-old company plans to expand its product selection beyond video doorbells, add...
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iDevices Cooks Up New Product Strategy
iDevices is selling off its smart-thermometer business to outdoor-grill maker Weber Stephens Products so it can focus on connected-home products, iDevices announced. iDevices was...
Home Automation
Bang & Olufsen Takes To Cloud To Integrate Home Systems
Bang & Olufsen is going to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) to offer custom installers more ways to integrate its audio and video products into...
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Why Crestron Bolted 2016 CEDIA Show
Ami Wright, Crestron’s director of residential programs, says Creston will fill the gap by making it easy for dealers to see new products and...
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URC To Hone Installers’ Home-Network Skills
Custom-install supplier URC is collaborating with professional-grade network-equipment supplier Luxul to improve its dealers’ home-network skills. Luxul offers networking products for residential, commercial, industrial and...
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URC Teams With Dealer Portal SupplyStream
Custom-install supplier URC is trying to make life easier for its authorized dealers by teaming up with SupplyStream, the online portal that lets dealers...
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Control4 Launches EA Smart Home Controllers
Control4’s next generation of home-automation controllers include the industry’s first single-room home-entertainment solution said to offer home control and home automation. All three new EA...
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Smart-Home Market Firing On All Cylinders
The smart-home industry is firing on all cylinders at the start of the New Year, with suppliers of installed and DIY systems launching new...
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Amazon Begins Auto Replenishment Via Dash-Connected Devices
The first connected devices to integrate Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system are ready for their close-up, Mr. Bezos. First out of the starting gate...
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Swann Secures With 4K
Forget about that old, grainy security video of yesteryear. Footage is moving into 4K. Swann, no stranger in the security and smart-home categories, has...
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CES 2016: Roost Debuts 9V Smart Battery For Smoke Alarms
Roost is launching its Roost Smart Battery at CES 2016, designed to transforms existing smoke and CO alarms into smart alarms. Via its familiar...
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It’s A Smart Home Boomtown At The Sands
To paraphrase a certain real-estate mogul and presidential candidate, smart-home technology at CES and in 2016 will be “yuge.” Spilling out from the Sands...
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LG To Step Up Smart Home Presence At CES 2016
LG plans a CES introduction of its first smart home hub, which will communicate with connected appliances and sensors using the wireless AllJoyn Alliance...
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Alarm.com, ConnectSense Smart Home Products Bring Temp Control & Siri To The Living Room
Some of the latest smart home products provide more precise control over room temperature and deliver Siri voice control of lamps and appliances. Alarm.com...
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Samsung Sees Drones, IoT In Its Future
Samsung Electronics will reportedly make a big push into drones and IoT in 2016. Samsung last year bought IoT company Smart Things and plans...
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Control4 Selling Denon Products To Dealers Through Web Store
Home-control supplier Control4 has begun offering many Denon audio products through its online dealer store to authorized Control4 dealers in the U.S. The available...
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Wink Gets A Nod From Flex
Flex, formerly Flextronics, will buy DIY home-automation supplier Wink from startup incubator Quirky, which recently filed for Chapter 11. The acquisition is expected to...
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Lowe’s Revamps Iris Smart Home System
Lowe’s revamped its DIY Iris smart-home system with faster performance, lower prices, and a selection of products that has grown to 75. The second-generation...
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Thread Group Begins Smart-Home Product Certification
The Nest-led Thread Group has begun certification testing of more than 30 products and components submitted so far by Thread Group members. Certification testing,...
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More Than 1 In 5 Intend To Use A Smart Watch To Control A Smart Home
Many consumers who own or plan to buy a smart watch will use it to control smart-home devices, a Parks Associates survey found. More...
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Bluetooth Smart To Get Smarter In 2016
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will increase the Internet of Things (IoT) functionality of its Bluetooth Smart standard in 2016 with longer range,...
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Amazon’s Echo No Longer Plays Hard To Get
Amazon’s $179 Echo smart speaker will reverberate in stores throughout the U.S. in time for the holidays as distribution opens up to more than...
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Smart Homes Skew Young, But Older Households Buy More Devices
Younger households adopt smart-home devices at a higher rate than older households, but older households with smart-home devices own more devices on average, Parks...
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Will Smart Homes Be As Common As Smartphones?
Sixty-eight percent of Americans say they are confident that smart homes will be as common as smartphones within 10 years, and 83 percent expect...
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Google’s OnHub Wi-Fi Router Gets A Sibling
Google’s OnHub Wi-Fi router is getting a companion. The $219 Asus-made OnHub will join the $199 OnHub made by TP-LINK and launched in the...
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August Expands Selection, Adds HomeKit, August Access Service
August expanded its selection of smart home-access products, added its first Apple Home-Kit-enabled product, and launched August Access service, which lets service personnel enter...
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Lutron Adds New Keypads, Remote Access To Custom Lighting Systems
Lutron is adding new features and new dimmer and keypad options to its RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS series of custom-installed lighting-control systems, including...
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Sonos To Open Up API To Simplify Integration With Smart Home Systems
Wireless multiroom-audio pioneer Sonos will open up its API to make it easier for home-automation suppliers to integrate with Sonos speakers and soundbars without...
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Thieves And Storms Won’t Be Able To Silence Alarm.com’s LTE Voice
Alarm.com is expanding the capabilities of its LTE-connected security and home-automation system with the launch of Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE). With VoLTE service, homeowners get hands-free...
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CEDIA Expo: Crestron Sticking With High-End Luxury Market
Crestron will keep its foot firmly planted in the luxury high end of the custom-install market even though competitors are moving into the mass...
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CEDIA Expo: iPort Turns To iPads For Retrofit Home-Control Installs
iPort, one of a trio of custom-install brands from Dana Innovations, is turning iPads into surface-mount on-wall controllers for home-automation and multiroom-audio systems that...
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CEDIA Expo: Control4’s New OS Adds Security, Audio Features
Control4 greeted CEDIA Expo attendees today with the OS2.8 version of its home-control operating system, which adds a completely revamped user interface, new security...
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CEDIA Expo: Gesture Control, Wi-Fi Door Locks & Doorbells Arrive From Fibaro, LockState, White Rabbit
Home automation systems controlled by gesture, a Wi-Fi /video doorbell that controls electronic locks, and a smart hub that replaces security panels are among...
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CEDIA Expo: RTI Shows First Z-Wave Lighting Control Products
RTIis launching the first Z-Wave lighting products under its RTI and Pro Control brands at this week’s CEDIA Expo. The company is also launching...
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CEDIA Expo: Wireless Tops List Of URC’s Home-Control Launches
URC is going to the CEDIA Expo with new one- and two-way remotes, a new wireless Z-Wave gateway, and new SKUs for the company’s...
Audio
NHT, DaVinci, Dynaudio, Madison Fielding Bringing Speakers To CEDIA Expo
Speaker suppliers are bringing something for everyone at this week’s CEDIA Expo with new products ranging from Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers to outdoor planter speakers...
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CEDIA Expo: Clare To Stress End-User Control, Affordability
Clare Controls said it will give homeowners more control over their home-automation systems and bring its home-automation solutions to a lower price point when...