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There’s no built-in geofencing, so you can’t turn off your heating automatically when you go out. However, you can use IFTTT to adjust your heating automatically. Using the Life360 service, for example, you can turn your heating off when you go out and on when you return.

Love the hip, vintage look of exposed filaments in your bulbs but desire all the modern-day convenience of smart lighting? Lighting company LEDVANCE’s newly announced HomeKit-enabled Sylvania Smart+ Filament bulbs may be just the thing your home needs. Combining retro style with smart home functionality, these bulbs offer up to 650 lumens of 2700K light — that’s equivalent to a 40W bulb — and are dimmable, so you can achieve the perfect brightness level for any occasion.

Having developed the world’s first self-contained refrigerator, Frigidaire is not afraid of keeping up with much younger start-ups. The company’s Frigidaire Cool Connect, an air conditioner for the American market, is one of the first to support Google Home. Using voice control, users can control the temperature, set the fan speed and even ask Google about the Cool Connect’s current settings.

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Conveniently, schedules can be copied between zones and days, so you don’t have to program every single change. We found that it took us a few weeks to get our schedules right, but we ended up only heating zones as we needed them.

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It’s unclear whether IKEA will release an updated bridge in the summer or fall or if the current bridge can be updated to support Apple HomeKit. IKEA’s smart lighting range features some of the least-expensive smart devices on the market. With wireless dimmers, motion sensors, wireless remotes, and more, IKEA’s system is a worthy competitor for the über popular Philips Hue line.

It’s wasteful to keep your home heated while you’re out, so most smart thermostats try to work out automatically when the house is empty. Many take a geofencing approach, relying on a companion app running on your smartphone to report back your location. If you share your home with other people, however, you’ll need a multi-user system that can track everyone, or they’ll be left in the cold when you go out for the day. Some systems (such as the Nest) also feature a motion sensor, which can identify when someone’s moving around indoors and keep the heating on even when the primary user isn’t around.

A second important element to this formula is in the type of carbon produced, with fossil fuels considered “geologic” and wood “biogenic.”  “The easier way to look at it,” explains Adam Sherman, a manager at Biomass Energy Resource Center, “is that oil is a really old biomass that took a hundred million years to convert from organic matter to dense carbon stored below the surface of the Earth over a geologic time period.” When released, they take a one-way route to the atmosphere.

“We track fuel prices and the amount of oil and propane that is replaced with wood pellets for the 164 boilers we’ve helped install in the region,” points out Maura Adams of the Northern Forest Center, “and switching to pellets has generated $3.5 million in economic benefit for the region. Plus, the homeowners, businesses, schools, and municipalities that switched have saved more than $200,000 thanks to the stable cost of wood pellets.” It goes without saying that the economic benefit of advanced wood heat also extends to the many workers who keep the industry going, most of whom are local, from harvesters to millers to deliverers.  With fossil fuels, 78 cents of every fuel dollar leaves the state.

IKEA, which already released its white smart bulbs back in August, is now adding some color to its HomeKit-enabled collection with a new E27 bulb called TRÅDFRI. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to buy the color bulbs on their own — each comes bundled with a easy-to-understand hardware remote so users can control them without a smart device. Though they’re not yet available online, stores across the US are well-stocked with them, so if you want one ASAP getting your hands on them shouldn’t be difficult.