Yesterday, I reported that Insteon has gone out of business and shut down all their cloud services with no notice. The Insteon app uses the Insteon servers to process the requests from the app, effectively making it useless. Things like schedules are stored on the hub, so these will continue to be processed. However, not…
Update: I have written a basic guide on how to get Insteon working with Home Assistant on Windows. Update 2: Confirming what we already knew, Insteon has formally ceased trading and has posted a notification on the website. Users are also being contacted with a Important Notice to Creditors. It is currently being reported that…
This will be a bit of a short review. Recently I gave a glowing review of the Eufy Security Dual Camera Video Doorbell, and I was a big fan of the Video Doorbell 2K I reviewed two years ago. When I did the Video Doorbell 2K review, Eufy didn’t sell additional chimes. You had a…
After one week of warm weather, it is probably time for me to prepare for summer. I have previously covered the best pedestal fans for sleeping. The key to these fans is as many speeds settings as possible, allowing you to run it as slowly as possible and, therefore, silently. It is the opposite for…
This week, Polar announced two new watches, the Polar Pacer Pro and the standard Pacer. These are geared toward runners but should function well as multisports watches. The two watches shake up the Polar range, effectively making the M2 obsolete and reducing the appeal of their premium-priced watches. In theory, that’s good for the consumer,…
The TRENDnet TEG-S762 and TEG-S750 were announced in the UK back in February. The TEG-S750 is perhaps the more interesting of the two models being a 5 port 10Gbps switch priced at around £300. As far as I am aware, there are no other five port 10Gbps switches on the market at this price. The…
Portable power stations have become increasingly popular in recent years, being a superior product to the old fashioned leisure batteries or traditional generators. I reviewed the Jackery Explorer 500 and its SolarSaga 100 Solar Panel last year, as well as the EcoFlow River Max 600Wh, with both of them being superb options. Both Jackery and…
I have reviewed a few projectors over the past few years. Recently these have been affordable full-size projectors such as the Yaber V10 or Vamvo L6200. They get the job done, but you get what you pay for and are not the best overall experience. I have also revied a couple of pico projectors such…
I reviewed the Red Magic 7 back in February, and it is by far the most powerful phone I have ever reviewed and one of the best options on the market if you are a serious mobile gamer. At the time of its launch, the Red Magic 7 Pro was also launched in China and…
The AIRROBO T10+ is a high spec, low price robot vacuum. This has pretty much all the features you could want from a robot vacuum, LiDAR navigation, vacuuming and mopping with no go and no mop zones, a long lasting battery and a self empty station. It is also one of the cheapest options on…
I previously reviewed the excellent Wired2fire Predator last October, which used the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X & RTX 3060 Ti. It was an impressive mid-range PC idea for 2560×1440 gaming. For the past couple of weeks, I have been checking out the more affordable Wired2Fire Phoenix Intel, which falls under the powered by MSI range…
I reviewed the 1080p OBSBOT Tiny last year and the Tiny 4K is largely the same but with a better camera. These cameras are quite unique in the world of webcams. They both use a PTZ gimbal and AI, which enables the cameras to auto-track as you move around. This sort of technology is normally…