The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Evan]

Vizio's Atmos sound bar is out now. No idea if it'll be worth it.

In other news, for those who have smart homes or are building smart homes, are you doing mostly straight WiFi devices or going one of the other avenues like z-wave. (are there any others?) So far, I have Google homes, a Vizio (with built in Chromecast) and a hook WiFi to rf bridge that controls remote outlets. All of it is WiFi based.

I guess as I continue to build, I'm worried about having so many things fighting for the WiFi. I guess the other option would be a multi router Network (name is slipping my mind).

And I don't really know anything about the non WiFi connection. I guess you need a hub for most or all of them that connects to the WiFi. Anyone have experience with the best, easiest, most supported ways to grow a smart home?

Also, should we create an official smart home thread?!

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The "false sense of security" thread has been where most smarthome talk is.
For wireless sensors like door sensors, PIR sensors, etc, you really have to go zwave (or zigbee) for battery life. Plenty of options, I like the monoprice stuff for cost.
Smartthings is probably the best zwave/zigbee router out right now, but its not perfect and sometimes I want to throw it through a window.