All Apple All Day

Our old house had a MyQ enabled garage door panel, and it worked PERFECTLY.  (After we added a MyQ Home Bridge, anyway.) At the new house, our garage is detached. Our wifi signal reaches the garage when the door is open, but not when the door is closed. Bottom line, MyQ didn't work anymore.  So we had to look into new MyQ devices - and Powerline. 

When we moved into our new house, we inherited an Ecobee thermostat.  To be honest... I liked our old Nest more. It had stainless steel and glass, while the Ecobee felt more plasticky.  But the Ecobee has HomeKit, and Nest does not.  So we got 2 more Ecobees.  And then the problems started. 

HomeKit integration for the August Lock Wi-Fi is broken. It simply doesn't work.  Fortunately, HomeBridge is there to pick up the pieces. 

  As promised, we went ahead and installed HomeBridge on our QNAP NAS.  And we connected our Ring Doorbell and cameras to HomeKit.  It worked. It worked SO well.

The last couple of years have been kind of a mess for everyone. We moved into a new house, and then immediately got locked down in it.   Here's what we've been up to on the HomeKit front.

Our new house came with an August Smart Lock Pro already installed.  We've written about it in this space quite a few times.  Now, we've upgraded to its successor - the 4th Generation August Wifi Smart Lock.  It's a worthy upgrade, and Pro owners should consider making the switch. 

I'll get the "review" part out of the way immediately - the EGO steel-deck mower is the best lawn mower I've ever owned, by a long shot.  There isn't any competition, really. Certainly not from gas-powered mowers, not from EGO's electrified competition, and not from EGO's plastic-deck mowers, either.