Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more than ...

A smart home isn’t about stuffing your house with gadgets you have to babysit or juggling app after app just to turn off a ...

For selection and affordability, Ikea will be hard to beat for Matter-compatible smart home sensors and lighting in 2026.

Not another damn light bulb. That’s what you might be thinking if you’ve been following smart-home tech for the past decade or, indeed, building out your own fortress of missed connections. The first ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With technology evolving so fast and most everyday objects getting smarter, it only makes sense to add smart capabilities to your home. Smart ...

As someone who grew up with a dial-up internet connection, I get anxious at the thought of any always-online product or service. My smart home is no different — I rely on it to automatically cool the ...

If you've decked your home out with smart LED lightbulbs, thermostats, and cameras, you're likely to find yourself looking for a centralized way of managing all of them at once. Smart home hubs, like ...

Smart home platforms like Apple Home, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa give you a simple way to sync all your smart devices. However, not all products work with every platform. For example, your video ...

Desloc has launched three new smart locks for CES 2026. The first, the Desloc K140 Plus, has a solar panel to keep its ...