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Getting started with Connected Home over IP

Last Updated: January 10, 2023 (First Published: January 16, 2020) by Tristan Perry

Zigbee Alliance Connected Home over IP webinar screenshot, showing how multiple leading smart home providers have "converged" to help make this standard.

An announcement in December 2019 was welcome news to many in smart home circles: that all the major smart home manufacturers and developers were getting together to produce a standard way for smart devices to speak to each other. This is called Connected Home over IP. Connected Home over IP will see Amazon, Apple, Google, … Read more

Which Programming Languages To Learn For Smart Homes

Last Updated: January 10, 2023 (First Published: January 10, 2020) by Tristan Perry

An example of some Python code from Github (using some open sourced plagiarism-detection-software from the website's owner, Tristan Perry)

If you want to take your smart home to the next level, learning a programming language can be a crucial next step. After all, mass-market smart devices can only do so much. If you want to do more with it, you need to extend them – or buy a more general device (like a Raspberry … Read more