I’ve quite pleased with how HA Bridge exposes Vera devices and scenes to my Amazon Alexa, so I’m a little conflicted about signing up. But, if you don’t have that setup, this is perfect for you. Join the Vera Beta Program for Amazon Alexa to experience Vera’s Native Skills Integration, supporting Climate, Lighting, and Scenes. Vera Control Beta Program
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I wasn’t able to run down price or exact availabilty, but this is still quite an interesting looking device, even though it’s not the latest wireless technology. As we can see from the photo above, the business oriented BRT-AC828 sports two WAN and eight LAN Gigabit Ethernet ports. Providing fail-over and enought connectivity that those of us who need a […]
Read moreWe haven’t heard much from CyberLink about PowerDVD in a while, and I guess it made sense because there really wasn’t much going on with the player, or space. That has changed however, with PowerDVD becoming the first PC player for Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. This is welcome news on two fronts. First, the HTPC as the best universal player […]
Read moreIf you pay attention to computer hardware, it’s obvious that NVMe rules the roost. All the benchmarks back this up, but seeing it on a chart doesn’t really have the same impact as seeing it. Which is why I really like the video that Techspot did highlighting the differences. It does get a little repetitive, so it’s OK to just […]
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Placing a tablet or similar “smart” device in, or on, a wall is a very popular way to get touchscreen control device around the house at a faction of the price of a proprietary, and less functional, alternative. Depending on your preference, iPad or iPod and budget you should be covered. PR attached
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I like the recent trend to make higher-end Wi-Fi routers look interesting. Stepping away from the old-school canister or plain shell with antenna is especially pleasing. No one has embraced this more fully than D-Link, with the DIR-855L/R being one of the latest crop of performance routers. Sporting a dual-core 1.4GHz Broadcom BCM4709C0 SoC, this 4×4 stream AC3150 (1000Mbps […]
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I like Wi-Fi cameras, and making them long range is clearly better, but I’m not sold on the subscription fee to make them, um… useful. Maybe I’m just cheap, er…, value oriented, but that really galls me. There might be a BYOS[torage] option, but I didn’t see one in the quick look over the PR. Ontario, CA, November 8th, 2016 […]
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It’s hard to beat Fractal Design cases when it comes to build quality, cooling and value, so it’s great to see another Define chassis added to the mix. Will be interesting to see how its magnetic dust filter works :). Fractal Design expand on their popular Define series So many cases on the market today are made to be all […]
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I almost didn’t read the press release for the Netamo Presence. If I’m not interested in something, I figure why would you be? And what’s that interesting about yet another IoT Wi-Fi camera? I am glad I did read it though, because there’s a lot of neat things going on with the camera including: Local SD storage Innovative installation mechanism […]
Read moreOne of my biggest gripes with the XBox One S’s support for UHD BD looks to be getting fixed in a future firmware update. When this happens, it should move from “value-with-caveats” to “best value” player for the next-gen format. That changes sometime in the future with a free update adding Dolby Atmos playback (via bitstream). It’s not nearly as […]
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