{"id":4564,"date":"2016-08-02T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2016-08-02T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:38:59","slug":"smart-home-major-mom-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2016\/08\/smart-home-major-mom-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Creating a Smart Home: Major Mom Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Smart Homes are coming. You can’t escape it…<\/p><\/div>\n

Earlier this summer our family took our annual trip “east”. For the past several years we had been flying east, but this time we drove because we’d be spending quite a bit more time visiting with friends and family. The boys and I were “out east” most of the month of June, while Dave flew out for the latter part of the trip and drove home with us.<\/p>\n

We visited our friends Don and Maryann in North Carolina. Their home was pretty well set up with a number of devices that were all tied together with their Amazon Echo. They could control lights, the door locks, and even their holiday decorations with Alexa. They were working on tying a humidistat into the system while we were visiting.<\/p>\n

We also visited our friend Lisa, who lives in St. Louis. She was similarly increasing the intelligence of her home with WiFi enabled lighting and door locks.<\/p>\n

Home automation had been on our family’s mind quite a bit. We were worried about crime in Colorado Springs<\/a>, and our own neighborhood isn’t immune to that.<\/p>\n

Not long after we got home, we went through with ordering an Amazon Echo, which Dave and I had been discussing for quite some time. After a couple weeks of seeing what the Echo could and could not do, we took advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day to get some good deals on basic home automation: half price lightbulbs and WiFi-enabled plugs.<\/p>\n

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So a few vocabulary words are in order here.<\/p>\n