Creating an alarm on your smart speaker is common, whether you set it to wake you up in the morning or keep you on task during the day. For some, a standard alarm going off isn’t enough to get them ...

All you need to get started with making your home a smart home is to add a few devices that work with your smartphone, tablet ...

Amazon's Echo Dot is recommended as the best smart home hub for most people in our buying guide. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Matter, acts as an eero extender, has motion and temperature sensors, ...

Imagine walking into your home, and with a single voice command or tap on your phone, the lights dim, your favorite playlist starts, and the thermostat adjusts to the perfect temperature, all without ...

Prepare your home for the rainy seasons and stormy weather to make sure none of your valuable outdoor devices get in trouble.

Your Alexa device is more than just a voice assistant and to know hoe to optimkise it completely, here we bring an article to ...

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 ...

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We may earn a commission from links on this page. But smart homes—and the devices that comprise them—have one enormous downside: privacy. Smart home devices work by allowing access over a network, and ...

The Amazon Fire TV Stick lets you turn a regular television into a smart TV, but that's not the only thing it can do. You can also use it as a hub to control the other smart devices in your house.