So began my journey to find the best versatile label maker to fit my needs and beyond. During the searching process I repeatedly came across two brands, Brother and Dymo. However while reading through the reviews of these label makers I discovered Epson. Contenders Brother Ptouch Cube, Ptouch cube plus, Ptouch cube Embelish elite, & [...]

We have had the doorbell installed for just under one year. For what it is worth our 5 camera Arlo system came with a free 7 day cloud memory for the life of the product and a base station that could back up video to a thumb drive. Within the first year that base station [...]

This little radio came to me as a gift and it retails for $79.00. Its main selling points are not in its speaker quality or cell phone charging abilities. In fact this radio fails drastically in those areas but it makes up for it with its solar panel and NOAA alert features. Emergency Device Charging [...]

To jump into the deep end of home automation or not?! I was an early adopter of all things home automated and this is what I have learned in the 11 years of running home automation in my home. #1. Less is More My absolute favorite smart home devices are the ones that don’t require [...]

I consider myself very new to online blogging and with that comes some growing pains. One of my more recent issues was locking myself out of my Word Press (WP) site after trying to change my primary domain name. I made the mistake of logging into the WP-admin, going to settings and changing the domain [...]

If you recently purchased a Netgear Arlo Pro 2 smart home security camera system excited about using the new added features like the CVR then you are in sore luck. I was excited to see that Costco had a 5 camera arlo pro 2 package sale for $830.00 NO TAX, NO SHIPPING FEE!!! It also [...]

Update: 2/19/18 Apple is back at it again!!! I have lost function of many apps on my iphone and noticed decreased performance. Apple Slowing Down Older Phones My Iphone 5s is running IOS 8.4 software and until recently when Apple finally announced that they were slowing down older phones I experienced routine buggy and slow [...]

A few days ago my Ecobee 4 smart thermostat started to randomly chirp regardless of the fact that it would be dead silent in the house. So after numerous internet searches and calling Ecobee support twice and running into dead ends I finally found the root of the problem. The problem originated with the fact [...]