There’s a lot you can do to design a resilient smart home, from choosing an open ecosystem like Home Assistant to avoiding devices that depend on the cloud to work. But sometimes, things just don’t go ...

Major weather events like thunderstorms, floods and hurricanes can spark problems even after the storm passes Drip. Drip. Drip. Over the summer, we had a massive thunderstorm pass through Dallas.

I’m a relatively early adopter of smart home products. While I didn’t dive in during the X.10 days, I’ve been using a variety of smart home devices for well over a decade now, and jumped in on HomeKit ...

Drip. Drip. Drip. Over the summer, we had a massive thunderstorm pass through Dallas. Torrential downpours, 80 mph winds, lightning, you name it. I didn’t give it much thought; we get a ton of storms ...