Stephen Robles 9/8/23 Stephen Robles 9/8/23

🔐 One Smart Lock to Rule Them All

I review the Aqara U100 smart lock with Apple Home Key, a final preview of the Wonderlust Apple Event, and I have an important question for readers!

Stephen Robles 5/8/23 Stephen Robles 5/8/23

Mastering Your Smart Backyard: My Top HomeKit Devices for Outdoor Living

Let’s head into the backyard and share some of the smart devices I've been using for motion sensing, fan control, garden hoses, floodlight cameras, and more. Let's dive in!

Stephen Robles 1/25/23 Stephen Robles 1/25/23

New HomePod mini Features with iOS 16.3

After updating your HomePod mini to 16.3 you can now use its temperature and humidity sensors, ask for Find My locations, see ambient sounds, and more!

Stephen Robles 7/25/22 Stephen Robles 7/25/22

At Home With HomeKit - Crossed Wires Podcast

As many of our regular listeners will know, I’m a bit of a smart home addict and my platform of choice is Apple’s HomeKit. To dive a bit deeper into the platform I invited Stephen Robles from the HomeKit Insider podcast to come and chat about the good, the missing, and the frustrating parts of the HomeKit ecosystem in 2022.

Stephen Robles 3/5/22 Stephen Robles 3/5/22

We’re Building a Smart Home

We're building a new house from the ground up, and that means we can run ethernet and speaker wire freely before drywall goes up! There's going to be lots of streaming boxes and smart home devices throughout, so we go through wiring every room for ethernet, where to place Wi-Fi access points, and more!