I administer a rack of computers that's living in a server room here. The server room has a dozen or so racks in it and is (in theory) monitored by IT. I've installed Nagios to monitor various things ...

Does your home have that one room that always feels cold in the winter? Or too hot in the summer? It’s a common problem, especially if your house runs on one thermostat. If, say, your thermostat is in ...

Onvis has been a long-time HomeKit device manufacturer, but I’ve just recently started using its products. One of the easiest ways to build out a smart home is by adding motion sensors in your home to ...

Temperature sensors are an important yet often overlooked part of a HomeKit setup. Even working as a passive tracking device, I want to add them to every room to understand more about what’s happening ...

Little thermometers you can buy and hang anywhere are fairly cheap, but there’s no need to get one if you own an Amazon Echo. That is, if you own one of two kinds of Echos: a fourth-generation Echo or ...

Avtech Software last week introduced an appliance and software that monitors heat in computer rooms and data centers. The rack-mountable TemPager notifies the IT manager when temperatures rise or fall ...