Your 2026 smart home will work best if your devices can all talk to each other without having to jump through hoops. Home ...

Sometimes the smart home doesn’t seem so smart, like when a cloud outage renders your devices useless or your smart bed ...

Until recently, my smart home setup was in chaos. After years of testing, buying, and upgrading to the latest smart home gadgets in an attempt to make my life easier, it became a bloated mess that was ...

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As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...

The entire appeal was setting up and running devices in a matter of minutes. But gradually, one of the problems of using apps ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As someone who remembers a time before the internet, I still have a natural mistrust of anything that needs to be online to function. This is ...

The Neato cloud server needed to keep the shuttered company’s robot vacuum cleaners running is being closed down three years earlier than promised, turning the smart devices into dumb ones. The parent ...

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SmartThings, one of the first and open smart home automation platforms, has come a long way since its early days. SmartThings, one of the first and open smart home automation platforms, has come a ...

Homey has launched the Homey Self-Hosted Server, allowing its smart home platform to run on your hardware instead of a dedicated hub.