New Video – Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus: Everything You Need To Know (Does It Justify Its High Price?)
Despite building my own DIY smart lightstrip for my kitchen last year, I purchased Philips Hue’s lightstrip to run around my desk in the black friday sales. Why did I…
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New Video – Amazon Echo: Change Alexa’s Flash Briefing News & Weather To Suit You
The Flash Briefing feature on Amazon Echo devices is quite useful, unless you dislike the news or weather provider – in which case a very useful feature quickly becomes wasted….
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New Video – Google Nest Home News – How To Make It Less… Boring!
So… I recently asked my Google Nest Mini device for a news update, and it went on (and on and on…) for over 10 minutes. TEN MINUTES! Luckily I have…
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New Video – My Kitchen’s Smart ZigBee Light Strip Install (+ Should You Use A Diffuser Channel?!)
So I finally go around to installing the custom DIY light strip that I created in a previous video. These smart light strips are ZigBee based, meaning that I can…
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New Video – Ring Floodlight Cam Brightness: Is 3,000 Lumens Enough?!
The Ring Floodlight Cam should be bright. After all, it’s a floodlight! But is its 3,000 lumen total light output (from two 1,500 lumen lights) bright enough? I wanted to…
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New Video – Ring Floodlight Cam ‘Broken’ Issue: Don’t Make This Mistake
I recently purchased a Ring Floodlight Cam after it went on sale during Amazon Prime Day. I’d been really looking forward to this item, so when I ‘broke’ it by…
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New Video – Funny Amazon Echo Easter Eggs (#shorts YouTube video)
A YouTube #shorts video covering some funny easter eggs that I’ve come across on my Amazon Echo Show (although they’ll work on all Echo devices), in less than a minute….
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New Video – Four Amazon Echo Show Features That I Like (#shorts YouTube video)
A YouTube #shorts video covering four features that I like on the Amazon Echo Show in less than a minute. The four features I cover on my Amazon Echo Show…
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New Video – DIY Smart LED Light Strips: How I Built My Own (Low Cost) ZigBee Lightstrips
After working out that using Philips Hue’s Lightstrips for my kitchen would cost £170+, I set out to build my own smart light strips that cost me less than £40….
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New Video – Ring Smart Alerts (Rich Notifications) – A Really Useful Feature
Ring have recently released a new feature called ‘smart alerts’ or ‘rich notifications’, which basically sends an image (snapshot capture) alongside any alerts it sends out. So if someone clicks…
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