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Five Essential Lighting Automations

As one of the most popular smart home device types and a common first step in adopting home automation, smart lighting can be a fun and helpful addition to your home. While many home automation enthusiasts start with the convenience of being able to ask your Alexa or Google Assistant

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Most Popular Smart Home Devices

More and more people are turning to smart home devices to simplify their life, increase their comfort and security, and better enjoy their homes. While there's still a long way to go until smart home technology is widespread in everyone's home, we're seeing smart home devices get adopted by broader

Super Tiles

Super Tiles are a feature – unique to SharpTools dashboards – that enable you to mix and match thing attributes, variables, and icons in a dashboard tile using a drag-and-drop editor.

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5 Garage Automation Ideas

Here's five garage automations that can help automate your life and help you feel more secure! Time triggered, conditions like weather, presence based, and more.

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5 Things to Consider When Building Your Smart Home

So you're adding 'smart' devices to your home and wondering what things you should consider as you purchase or add these devices? In this article, we'll describe 5 things to consider when starting your smart home journey or continuing on the path as you grow your smart home. Device CompatibilityOne

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5 Things to Consider with Smart Lighting

When looking at smart lighting options, there's a vast array of choices – and some of these choices may be fraught with pitfalls! We'll cover the top 5 things to consider when choosing a smart lighting option for your home! Bulb, Switch, or Plug?One of the first things to think

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Weather and the Smart Home

From knowing if you should grab a jacket before you head out to getting notified if the windows were left open and it's going to rain, there's a ton of great use cases for integrating weather into your smart home experience. There's a lot of interest in how to use

Custom Tile

Custom Tiles

A solution that enables external integrations to seamlessly blend into dashboards. That's what we set out to build with the Custom Tiles feature. As you might suspect, we frequently receive requests to integrate new devices and services into the SharpTools smart home platform. While we currently support thousands of smart

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Life360 Live Map

Ever wondered where you left your cell phone or where your friends and family were? This community project provides a beautiful map tile for your SharpTools.io dashboards to help you solve that question! Just interested in the end result? You can find more details on how to setup the