Amazon Alexa and Apple Home are two of the best smart home platforms around. Both support hundreds of devices, dozens of product categories, and offer a simple way to automate your smart home. However ...

Expensive upfront costs Fundamentally alters your home. There are a lot of different reasons why you might want a whole-home backup battery. Perhaps you lose power frequently. You might be expecting ...

The Homey Pro (2023) is a standalone hub that aims to combine every single device in your smart home, allowing you to produce ...

The new AI-powered capabilities primarily focus on a smart home assistant that can understand and use natural language, as well as comprehend, generate, and summarize descriptions of events within and ...

Just like WiFi-enabled lights and plugs and locks, smart thermostats give you the ability to automate the temperature ...

UK consumer advocacy body Which? is calling on big name smart device makers to guarantee security updates for more than just two years. The organization points out that household appliances like ...

Rising costs, privacy concerns, and digital fatigue are fueling an unexpected "dumb home" movement, where simplicity is part of the appeal. Beth McGroarty, vice president of ...

ABB has launched ReliaHome Smart Panel, a new smart home energy management system. The product, intended for residential projects in the United States and Canada, was developed in partnership with ...

You can start your smart home journey with as little as a cheap smart plug. Your home will already be smarter, but it can quickly get addictive. One plug becomes five, and before you know it you've ...

The first day of CES 2023 is right around the corner, but Samsung isn’t waiting to introduce the world to its new lineup of smart home appliances. Specifically, the Bespoke lineup is now on full ...

[Jeff Sandberg] has put a fair bit of effort into adding solar and battery storage with associated smarts to his home, but his energy usage statistics were incomplete. His solution was to read data ...