Our kitchen is placed in an L shaped extension of our house. When we bought our house it had only simple on/off (dumb) light bulbs in the ceiling. We wanted to be able to dim the lights, so this was a perfect opportunity to replace them with Smart GU10 bulbs. Making the lights smart and … Read moreUsing Ikea Smart GU10 bulbs to Smarten my Kitchen Lights
The Amazon Prime days are this year on 15 and 16 July. For the first time, the Amazon Prime Smart Home Deals 2019 will run for 48-hours (last year it was 36-hours). So these are great days to expand our Smart Home and save money on our home network gear. Below you will find a … Read moreAmazon Prime Smart Home Deals 2019 – Best Tech and Smart Home deals
The last holiday of the year is coming and 2019 is the year of the Smart Home. If you are still looking for a smart home gift for Christmas then you are in the right place. I listed some of the most original and affordable smart home gifts for your dad, husband or friend. In … Read moreOriginal Smart Home Christmas gifts for 2019
If you have read my blog before you probably know that I have a decent amount of smart products in and around my house. Pretty much all the indoor lights are Smart, but one thing still on my todo list was Smart Outdoor Landscape Lighting. The “problem” with outdoor landscape lighting is that, with the … Read moreHowto make your Outdoor Landscape Lighting Smart
Once you start with automating your home and you see the benefits of it you quickly want to do more, but what? The possibilities with home automation are pretty much endless so to help you get started I put together a list with some of the best home automation ideas. This list is created based on … Read moreBest Home Automation Ideas
Building your Smart Home is fun, every week I add new functions, making it smarter. Now our Smart Home behaviour is really based on the presence me and my wife. Which is working great and also saved me already a lot of money on the energy bill. But the problem with automation or programming, in … Read moreHow I scared my babysitter with my Smart Home
A smart thermostat, the only smart device that can earn it’s purchase back with saving money on your energy bill. It’s 2019 and I can’t imagine that people still buy dumb thermostats. These thermostats maybe cheap when you buy them, but you will lose money every year while heating your house when you are not … Read moreBest Smart Thermostat on Amazon (2019 review)
If you start creating your Smart Home one thing you probably want to add are Smart Motion Sensors. If you already have a controller then adding motion sensors is a really easy way to create a security system. But you can do so much more with them besides triggering an alarm when they detect motion. … Read moreUsing Z Wave Motion Sensors in and around your house
I am an IT guy, and hence the name of my blog, LazyAdmin, I like to automate as much of the boring daily tasks as I can. So that is what I did with my home. In this post, I will try to help you get started designing your own Smart Home. Where should you … Read moreSmart home design
