In my first part of my setting up a smart home articles I looked at why I chose Amazon Alexa as the main way of
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You can now control Plex with Amazon Alexa
Plex is a great media system and now it is even better as you can interact with Plex via Amazon Alexa. There is a new
The Digital Lifestyle Show #587 – In Hot Water
Welcome to this week’s podcast where Jason, Garry, Richard and I talk about the new Windows 10 build, broadband issues, smart home setups and my
Setting up a Smart Homes for the rest of us (Part 1)
[Part 2 covering lights is available here] Home automation and smart homes are nothing new, the tech has been around for years and there are
The Digital Lifestyle Show #586 – Windows 10 Social Update
Welcome to this week show. Garry, Richard and I talk about controlling the smart home from Windows, new Amazon Alexa setups, complicating the home and
Mattel to release a Cortana powered kid’s smart hub
Smart Home assistants are going to be big 2017, Amazon have a head start with Alexa but Microsoft are looking to take them on with
mydlink Smart Plugs now support by Amazon Alexa
Last month when I set up Amazon Alexa to control my Christmas Tree lights with D-Link Smart plugs I found the lack of native support
Amazon Alexa becomes a platform as Lenovo announce Amazon Alexa powered Smart Assistant
This week CES 2017 kicked off and one of the first interesting announcement is from Lenovo with an Amazon partnership. Lenovo have announced the Lenovo
How I setup voice control for my Christmas Tree lights using Amazon Dot
UPDATE November 2017. Since writing this article last year D-Link have introduced support for Alexa so its now much easier to get it working. To