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The beta version of Apple’s Home app may be the ultimate smart home control hub that HomeKit users have long anticipated. Many of the previous issues with HomeKit are being resolved with this app as it offers a simple and user-friendly interface for controlling any smart home device. The app starts off with some introductory pages to help users understand...
When the possibility of creating smart homes first became a feasible task, it turned out to be more complicated than originally anticipated. Since then, the technology has improved with more accurate sensors and voice control abilities, making it much easier to create and operate a smart home. We haven’t quite reached perfection in terms of interoperability, but smart technology and...
Apple recently unveiled the Beta 1 version of its newest operating system, iOS 10, at WWDC 2016. In order to discover more about this exciting release, Adam Justice of ConnectSense upgraded all of his devices to iOS 10, Beta 1. There are innovative new features that can not only be accessed on the iPhone, but on the Apple Watch, iPad,...
Apple HomeKit is continuing to become a more powerful smart home automation tool. Apple announced today at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that they have developed a “Home” app for Apple HomeKit-enabled smart home products. The Home app will be used to aggregate home automation devices, such as the ConnectSense Smart Outlet, getting them to work together in an easy...
There’s no dearth of smart outlets with Wi-Fi connectivity, but you might not know of their existence because they really don’t get much ink (or pixels) in the press. Fancy smart home hubs and biometric door locks are much more exciting to talk about than an electrical outlet that you can turn on and off via Wi-Fi using an app...
Just plug Grid Connect’s smart outlet into any available electrical outlet, pair it with the ConnectSense app, and you’ll be able to bark out commands to control anything connected to that outlet. The ConnectSense Smart Outlet fits over any existing, standard North American electrical outlet. Once plugged in, you can use it to automate everything from lights and fans to...