Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group (PMUG)

Monthly Meeting Information

February 11, 2025: Setting up a Smart Home, with Aric Pedersen

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. — so that we may start on time, please arrive at least 5 minutes before the meeting begins.

Setting Up a Smart Home / A continuous line drawing of three smart home devices: a wireless power socket controller, a smart lightbulb, and a wireless weather station controller showing the temperature, humidity, and current weather - Illustration by Michael Blank

A smart home lets you see the status of various connected devices and control them remotely. PMUG’s president, Aric Pedersen, will cover considerations and hardware options for smartening up your home.

What do you want to smarten? Lighting? Cameras outside your home? Inside your home? How about smart lock options? What about typically hard to smarten items like special switches and lamps you don’t want to replace?

Aric will cover not only Apple’s Homekit and devices, but also third-party products. He will explain how you can work a smart assistant (such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Home) into the mix. Having a smart home carries with it serious privacy and security considerations, which Aric will also discuss.

We hope you will join us this month to learn all about setting up a smart home.

The meeting will be held online through Zoom — members should check their e-mail for instructions on how to connect and attend. We hope you can join us. A limited number of non-member audience “seats” at our Zoom meeting are also available on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you wish to attend, please e-mail pres @ pmug-nj.org, and include your full name to receive an invitation with connection information.

About the Presenter
Aric Pedersen has worked for many years in the technology sector. He has used Macs primarily since 1990. Aric can often be found answering questions on the PMUG help list while he waits for the world to return to something like normalcy. He currently lives in New Jersey.

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The Monthly Meeting

Our meeting will be held online through Zoom. Members will be e-mailed the connection information the week before the meeting takes place. A general question-and-answer session will also be held after the main presentation.