In recent years, Apple has made significant strides in the smart home industry, making it easier than ever for users to create a seamless, interconnected living space within the Apple ecosystem. With ...

Say goodbye to (some) smart home woes. New user-facing features are coming to Matter that will make it easier than ever to set up your smart home and circumvent some of the more finicky, frustrating ...

Home Assistant is amazing because it’s free, but it’s not always the easiest platform in the world to use. Though you can ...

You need a central hub to set up complex smart home automations. Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple HomeKit are all solid choices, but not every device is compatible with every hub, so plan ahead.

From doorbells to vacuums, these smart home devices are designed to streamline your day-to-day, and many of them are on sale for Black Friday.

With Matter and Thread, the smart home is experiencing a new start, and an upswing. We take a look back at Apple's history in ...

It's been over a decade since Apple's HomeKit smart home platform launched, and it is overdue for an update. ‌HomeKit‌ and the Home app can no longer keep up with AI-powered solutions from other ...

Apple’s much-rumored smart home shake-up could see HomeKit quietly retired from consumer-facing branding, right as the Cupertino tech giant readies its most ambitious home hardware lineup ever. The ...

The smart home interoperability standard looks to streamline how you add smart devices to your home. The smart home interoperability standard looks to streamline how you add smart devices to your home ...

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 ...