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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Not another damn light bulb. That’s what you might be thinking if you’ve been following smart-home tech for the past decade or, indeed, building out your own fortress of missed connections. The first ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After a messy start, Google’s Home ecosystem is finally starting to come together. After a messy start, Google’s ...

The Raspberry Pi might sound like dessert, but it's actually a credit card–sized computer changing the world of DIY tech. First launched in 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was designed to make ...

Trading all of your home tech and appliances in for smart home gear is supposed to make your life easier, automating tasks and making it possible for you to control everything with your phone. But ...

Not sure how a smart home works or what kind of devices it needs? As a smart home expert, I'm breaking it all down. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how ...

As someone who grew up with a dial-up internet connection, I get anxious at the thought of any always-online product or service. My smart home is no different — I rely on it to automatically cool the ...