Ever thought of turning your home into a smart home? Wouldn't you love to be able to switch off the lights you left on even after you've got to the office? Or turn the air conditioning on before you get home from work? Smart Home devices also can let you
monitor the safety of your home,
unlock doors to friends for temporary access (even if you aren't at home to receive them) and even turn your regular appliances "smarter".
Though we're starting with the most popular of the lot, Nest Thermostat, know that there are
plenty of other smart home automation devices that let you do more than just check your home's surrounding temperature. It looks like things are going to get interesting, at home, in the long run.
1. Nest Thermostat
This is a self learning thermostat that will act as the core of your home heating system and it uses Wi-Fi to let you gain access to control it, even when you're far away from home. When you first start using this device, you may just use the turn on/off feature for the boiler in your house or set a schedule for the timer to handle your boiler automatically. Instead of that, you can just use the
dialer feature to turn the temperature up or down accordingly. Nest Thermostat can also learn your habits, so that it can use
its motion sensor to automatically adjust the temperature. [Price: $249 -
Get one]
2. Honeywell Lyric Thermostat
Honeywell Lyric Thermostat is similar to Nest Thermostat, but instead of relying on a motion detector, Lyric
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