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 ...

If managing a growing list of apps for your smart home feels overwhelming, try these top practices to keep everything organized and under control.

With HomeKit and the Apple Home app, you can turn your house into a smart home – maybe even the smartest home on the block. Turn lights on and off, lock and unlock your door, toggle the TV on or off, ...

The Smart Home: It's a place that anticipates your needs and empowers you to fine-tune your environment. That's the pitch, at least. Putting it all together isn't a smooth ride, but the right setup ...

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 ...

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 ...

How smart is your “smart home” when it’s out of power? Three years ago one of the biggest home builders in the United States created a show “home of the future” for CES, the Consumer Electronics Show.

Controlling the smart home is mainly achieved in one of two ways. Using the digital assistant on your smartphone or smart speaker, or accessing the appropriate app on your mobile device. While it’s ...

A new Home View and a bit of ‘jiggle mode’ make the HomeKit app more usable, but there’s still a long way to go Apple’s Home app has always felt like an afterthought. Probably because it was. Apple ...