Ikea made news at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month with its expansion of affordable smart home devices. If you have not gone much further than a Ring doorbell because the smart home ...

So you want to start up a smart home, do you? They can be a lot of fun, especially when you really get into the rhythm of setting up devices and getting them on your network. Best of all, because it's ...

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

I’m a smart home nerd. That’s a given after running a smart home-focused website for nearly a decade and testing pretty much every platform, system and setup available. As such, people often ask me ...

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Turning your house into a smart home might isn’t the dauting task you might think it is. It’s also not going to cost an absolute fortune, because most most smart home devices are quite affordable ...

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Trading all of your home tech and appliances in for smart home gear is supposed to make your life easier, automating tasks and making it possible for you to control everything with your phone. But ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A decade ago, it was understandable to avoid smart home tech. It was fragmented, unreliable, and expensive. These days, there are still smart ...

Google’s smart home efforts were in a sorry state as late as May. Google touted Gemini AI assistant throughout the entire keynote of its annual I/O developers conference, demonstrating how it would ...