Page 9 - Christopher Null News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The code that specifies | builds | runs | tests | documents your code.

These app for controlling these generic-plus Wi-Fi smart home devices need more polish before we can fully recommend either of them.

NuWave OxyPure Smart Air Purifier Our COVID-obsessed world is bringing understandable new attention to an old technology: the air purifier. While dozens of units of varying sizes and capacities are available at retail, none is quite as advanced as the NuWave OxyPure, which I’ve been reviewing in my own home for a week. You needn’t even open the box to see that this is no questionably capable drop-shipped export. About the size of a small dorm refrigerator (and mounted on casters), the 14.2 x 14.2 x 26.3-inch, 27-pound device has tons of power and is designed to clean the air of a s...

The Tailwind iQ3 has a lot in common with other smart garage door controllers on the market, but the promise of at least one unique feature—the ability to automatically open the door when you get home—caused this reviewer to perk up. Could this be the end of the tyranny of having to push buttons to open the garage door? I was excited to put the iQ3 to the test to find out. The hardware itself is unobtrusive and familiar: a small black box that sits near your garage door opener and connects via a pair of wires to the motor. The Tailwind app is reasonably helpful at guiding you through this...

The sensor mounts to the wall via a mounting plate connected to the sensor via a ball-and-socket hinge, allowing for easy and flexible aiming. You don’t need to be too accurate at placing it, though; in my testing, the sensor had a huge, room-filling range and was incredibly sensitive, regularly alerting even to the cat strolling by at higher levels of sensitivity. (Motion detection sensitivity is adjustable, as is the tamper detection sensitivity.) Christopher Null / IDG The Shelly apps configuration options are hardly intuitive, and making changes takes forever. The Shelly Motion sensor i...