As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and ...

Gemini for Home just got meaningfully faster, Google Home's camera experience got a visual and functional overhaul, and media controls are now available to every user.

My house may be from the 40s, but I feel like a Jetson with location automation.

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 ...

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The Matter standard has received the 1.4.1 update, which includes a series of improvements and optimizations specifically designed to eliminate most of the pitfalls you encounter when setting up ...

Home Assistant turns all my different gadgets into inputs and outputs, which is exactly what a smart home should have been ...

Matter 1.4.1 implements a handful of new features to ease new-device setup. Multi-device QR code setup will let you add a whole box of smart home devices while only scanning a single QR code. NFC ...

The latest update to the Matter specification is here, which will eventually deliver enhancements to the setup process for smart home devices, including Apple Home users. The Connectivity Standards ...

Here are three new ways Apple Home has recently gotten better during the iOS 26 cycle too, even as we hope for bigger changes ...

When I press the “on” button on the light switch for the chandelier over my kitchen island, it turns on in an instant. When I ask Alexa to turn it off, the light turns off. When I tap the light in the ...