Month: May 2020

Automating Z-Wave/Zigbee Home Basics

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Hubitat EASY Home Automation – Without Rule Machine!

Hubitat Rule Machine can be a little overwhelming for first time users. The good news is, there are easier places to start your powerful home automations in Hubitat. We’ll look at four often overlooked apps that are user friendly. The apps include Motion Lighting, Simple Automation Rules, Groups and Scenes, and Button Controller. For the…
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OSRAM SHUTTING DOWN

OSRAM Lightify Shutting Down

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the announcement by OSRAM that they will be shutting down their Lightify Cloud Services on August 31st, 2021. I’ll walk through what this really means to you as a consumer and what options you have. The announcement is as follows from the OSRAM website. The LIGHTFY cloud…
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Wink Introduces a new Subscription Model

For me – talking about Wink is a little akin to talking about a ex high school sweetheart. Fond memories of beauty, excitement and passion that ended for no other reason than we grew apart and our life directions no longer aligned. That was me and Wink. As an old X10 guy, Wink was everything…
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