Smart Home – ECKRICH ENTERPRISES

IRIS Home (Lowe’s) is going away…

If you bought into Lowes’ IRIS environment for smart home technology, your functionality is about to come to an end. After not being successful enough in competing against Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and even Apple HomePod, Lowes is pulling the plug and discontinuing IRIS services. Per The Verge, you can get a pro-rated refund on a store gift card to purchase tech from other companies.

If you’re interested in setting up Smart Home Technology, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We have integrated several homes and would love to help you with yours!

WiFi acting up? Google Home/Chromecast might be at fault

Due to a little sloppy programming, when your Google Home or Chromecast ‘wakes up’ from being in sleep mode for a while, it can overwhelm your WiFi router – even take it offline and deny service to other devices on the network.

Google & associated manufacturers are currently working on updating this – it should be pretty simple so don’t expect to wait longer than a week.

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Netflix’ new Android App for DVD Queue Management

Netflix has now produced a DVD Queue Management app for the Android operating system (OS). Eight months ago, they published the Apple iOS version so, for the dwindling customer base that receives DVDs through the mail who happen to have Android OS, you can now manage your DVD Queue.

Exciting times, n’est-ce pas?

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