Can’t hear that phone ring? Smart home to the rescue! On a recent Internet of Things Podcast, we took a voicemail from Brian on our podcast hotline. His mother is an assisted living facility and doesn’t always hear her phone ring so he’s looking for a solution to that problem. Brian asked if there’s some type of device he could connect to his mother’s television that would display text on the screen when her phone rings or when he texts her. We don’t know of one but we do have some alternative suggestions that could work just as well. It helps that Brian’s mother is already familiar with Amazon Alexa. When living at home, she used Alexa to voice control [...]