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 ...

Building out a smart home can be fraught with frustration. Every device uses its own hub, and if not that, most definitely its own app. Before you know it, your smartphone is littered with ten ...

Not all home apps are equal. Your app experience can make or break the smart home devices you choose, such as security cameras or smart bulbs. The worst apps have confusing menus, lack settings and ...

IKEA continues its foray into smart home devices with the launch of a Google Matter-ready hub called DIRIGERA and a new IKEA Home smart app. With the new device and app, the Swedish company is ...

As usual, we received a monsoon of information from Apple during WWDC this year. Consequently, it's not unusual to find extra gems of information that the company didn't focus as much time on as it ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The smart home has an interface problem, and six undergrads from Duke think they’ve solved it with a Raspberry Pi ...

Home Depot has launched a smart home app meant to be an all-in-one for smart appliances and accessories the big box store sells, but it’s debatable why anyone would need it when Google Home and Amazon ...

Razer is becoming a smart home platform with a mobile app and partnerships. The app should launch in the first half of 2022 and focus on lighting. Razer already has partners such as Nanoleaf and LIFX ...