Home Automation

Trying to deploy home automation using Alexa or Google Home? Looking for quick tutorials? Packt Hub will keep you up to date with the latest changes in home automation. Moreover, we’ll also provide helpful tutorials to help you solve everyday problems.

Researchers reveal Light Commands: laser-based audio injection attacks on voice-control devices like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant

Researchers from the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo and the University of Michigan released a paper on Monday, that gives…

4 years ago

Amazon’s hardware event 2019 highlights: high-end Echo Studio, the new Echo Show 8, Echo Loops, and more

At its annual hardware event 2019, Amazon unveiled an avalanche of Alexa-powered products. It introduced a high-end Echo Studio, the…

5 years ago

Mozilla releases WebThings Gateway 0.9 experimental builds targeting Turris Omnia and Raspberry Pi 4

In April, the Mozilla IoT team relaunched Project Things as “WebThings” with its two components: WebThings Gateway and WebThings Framework.…

5 years ago

Google to kill another product, the ‘Works with Nest’ API in the wake of bringing all smart home products under “Google Nest”

Update: Included Google’s recent plan of action after facing backlash by Nest users.   At this year’s Google I/O developer…

5 years ago

Mozilla re-launches Project Things as WebThings, an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices

Yesterday, the Mozilla IoT team announced that ‘Project Things’ is now out from its early experimental phase with a new…

5 years ago

Eero’s acquisition by Amazon creates financial catastrophe for investors and employees

Last month Amazon announced that it acquired the mesh Wi-Fi router company, Eero for $97 million. However, this deal, which sounded…

5 years ago

Apple officially cancels AirPower; says it couldn’t meet hardware’s ‘high standards’

Apple announced last week that it has canceled its AirPower charging mat over concerns related to its inability to achieve…

5 years ago

Android Things is now more inclined towards smart displays and speakers than general purpose IoT devices

The Android Things platform was launched in 2018 to power third-party smart displays and other speakers. Last year, a number…

5 years ago

CES 2019: Top announcements made so far

CES 2019, the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas will go from Tuesday, Jan. 8 through Friday, Jan. 11.…

5 years ago

IEEE Computer Society predicts top ten tech trends for 2019: assisted transportation, chatbots, and deep learning accelerators among others

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) released its annual tech future predictions, earlier this week, unveiling the top ten most likely to…

5 years ago