SmartHome Blog

The Fibaro Smart Implant is a versatile device that can make your old electronic devices and systems smart! In this guide, you'll learn how to use the implant to enable your beautiful vintage devices to enjoy the wonders of 21st century technology.

If you've ever tinkered with a Z-Wave device, it's likely you've heard the phrase 'Configuration Parameters'. Find out what these parameters do, why and how to use them and how they differ for devices with templates, and devices without templates.

In this video blog, we will show you how to setup the Fibaro Home Center 2 as your alarm system and harness the power of Z-Wave to protect your home.

Attention Airbnb Owners! Do your guests leave the heater, A/C or lights on? Do they lock up properly? Do you have to manually hand over your keys or create a pass-code for them? With smart home technology, these worries and inconveniences can be a thing of the past. Find out how today.

Controlling your smart home home with your voice is fantastic... However there can be a huge variance in the speed of the various voice assistants when working "natively" with Z-Wave hubs (and some do not work at all). In this blog, we will show you how to dramatically increase the responsiveness of your voice assistant platform of choice by combining a clever little device called Automation Bridge with your Z-Wave Gateway Controller.

One of the many advantages of Z-Wave is the ability to monitor energy consumption of appliances and devices connected to Z-Wave power modules. In this blog I will show you a scenario where energy consumption monitoring can help create a very intelligent smart home.

In this blog we will show you how to create a "Holiday Mode" for your Fibaro Home Center 2. This will allow you to easily activate and deactivate "Holiday" scenes that turn lights on / off at scheduled times, perfect for when you go away on holiday and you would like it to appear someone is still at home.

There is no denying that voice control for your smart home is the future – In this exclusive SmartHome blog, I will show you how you can add voice control to your Vera Z-Wave Controller using the Amazon Echo. The future is now.

As the hot Australian summer fast approaches, I thought it would be timely to write a blog about controlling your air-conditioner using Z-Wave. Best of all, you will be able to turn on your aircon from anywhere - never come home to a sweat-box again!

The Fibaro Home Center's user interface looks incredible. Did you know that you can also include custom icons for all of your different Z-Wave devices? In this exclusive blog, I'll show you how - and provide you some free icons to get you started.