Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s new smart home controller feels like a decent piece of hardware, but the interactive widgets make it ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Amazon’s new control panel makes using an Alexa-powered smart home as easy as flipping a light switch (only ...

Naturally, you’ll need a Home Assistant server for this to work. The platform is free and open-source, and runs on just about ...

Back in the summer, my family went out of town for a few days. We had a dog sitter come by a few times a day to take our dogs on walks as well as take them to the bathroom. One challenge I had was ...

You can use your Amazon Fire TV Stick to control other smart devices in your home, such as the lights or a thermostat. Do this via the Smart Home Dashboard.

In recent years, we've had to deal with a multitude of different smart home hubs to run all our different devices. Thankfully, though, the Matter protocol is quickly allowing us to fold all of our ...