Connected Home Buyer's Guide

Is your smoke alarm outdated? Looking to monitor your home for smoke or carbon monoxide leaks and be proactively notified in the event of an emergency?

Try Nest Protect™ Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm for alerts straight to your smartphone or table when it senses smoke or carbon monoxide.

See, hear and record the goings on in your home with Wi-Fi connected security cameras. Monitor the baby sleeping in the next room, keep tabs on a service person entering your home while you’re away, or play back video to see where a break-in or fire occurred.

Try Nest Cam Indoor™ security camera for its two way talk and listen features and  continuously recorded live video.

Are you trying to easily save energy while you’re away from home, but want to return to a comfortable temperature setting?

Try the Nest Learning Thermostat™ or ecobee3 for automated energy savings. These Wi-Fi thermostats learn your schedule, so you don’t have to change the temperature to an energy-efficient setting before you leave for the day and you’ll return to a comfortable temperature.

Interested in the Wi-Fi capability of the Nest thermostat and ecobee3, but don’t need all the bells and whistles?

Try the LUX/GEO thermostat for a simpler, more affordable option. It’s easy to install and program and it uses your smartphone’s location through the app to tell whether you are home or not and optimizes your energy savings while you’re away.

Want to program your lighting from your smartphone to set the mood for when you return from home, watch a movie or take a nap?

Try Philips Hue – Sync your lighting hue and temperature to match your mood, and connect to other home products to have more control, comfort and security in your home.

Looking to set the color and brightness of your LEDs from your smartphone or tablet so you don’t need to get off the couch or out of bed?

Try Osram Lightify – Choose from thousands of colors, and change from warm to cool light from the convenience of your smartphone.

Interested in virtually controlling who accesses your home?

Try August Smart Lock – It turns your smartphone into a lock so you no longer have to fumble for your keys. You can monitor who comes and goes, when, and assign keys for a limited time, so you’re always in control of who can access your home.

Looking for notifications to your phone when someone rings your doorbell while you’re away from home?

Try August Doorbell Cam – It notifies your smartphone when someone is at your front door and allows you to watch and talk to a visitor at the door to let them know to come on in or come around back.

Interested in easily monitoring your front door and talking to whoever may be there to increase your home’s security?

Try Nest Cam Outdoor – security camera to receive alerts when Nest Cam senses movement and listen and talk back to anyone there.

When the Nest Protect Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Alarm senses smoke and air quality emergencies, it tells the Nest Thermostat to shut off your heating and cooling system so it does not circulate throughout your home. Nest Protect’s motion sensors also communicate with your thermostat so it knows when you’re home or away, making the thermostat even more efficient.

When you purchase the August Doorbell Cam, August Smart Lock and August Connect together, you can see who is ringing the doorbell through the August Doorbell Cam and unlock the door for visitors using August Smart Lock on one app. Get remote access to unlock the door for visitors using the August Connect.

Control all of your Nest products directly from your August app, set your Nest app to tell Philips Hue to turn off the lights when you leave, or unlock and lock the August Smart Lock directly from the Honeywell Total Connect app.