KL Forslund

Imagine, if you will, upgrading your house, making it better, faster, smarter. Then one day, nothing works, because a vendor’s server is down. That happened on March 12th, 2018 for all the owners of Samsung SmartThings in North America. The internet echoed with the cries of frustrated users. Alexa ignored requests to open pod bay doors. Men had to get up and turn the light on for their wives. It was horrible. But not as bad as the guy who got locked out of his house becaus

Ever want to make something work, and dig into it deeper than anybody else? And then, you find the secret, the thing that other people struggled with. Now you have it, are you going to keep it for yourself, or share the knowledge that you worked so hard for. Am I talking about the book I’m writing, or some new tricks I learned for Alexa? Maybe both. Today, I’ll share more of what I learned about my Alexa system, including, that hard-won bit one mastery. If you don’t have