Sales are a great time to start or expand your smart home setup, with discounts on brands including Amazon Echo, Eufy and ...

The smart plug likely saved us $300–$500 of spoiled groceries and was a great band-aid fix until we finally got an electrician to replace the failing GFCI outlet a few weeks later.

Matter was announced in 2022 with the promise of unifying all major smart home ecosystems—but three years later, that promise ...

Amazon’s October Prime Day sale starts Oct.7—but keeping track of the best discounts yet to land and figuring out which deals are worthwhile can be a challenge. As an alternative, you can have Alexa ...

Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s ...

They’re not complicated, but smart plugs can make life a bit more convenient and, honestly, a little more fun. I like saying “Goodnight” to Alexa and having all the lamps and the holiday lights click ...

If Alexa lights up but won't respond on your Alexa-compatible device, there could be a number of issues at play.

Prime Day has always been the sweet spot for snagging Amazon-branded devices at prices that make Black Friday look like amateur hour. When Amazon puts its own products on sale, they don’t mess around ...

Smart plugs can infuse some intelligence into regular old things around your home. When you're comfortable in bed, rather than getting up to turn off your light, you can connect it to a smart plug to ...

Amazon Alexa skills allow you to customize the artificially intelligent assistant to suit all sorts of needs.

Imagine turning your old, “dumb” appliances into intelligent, Wi-Fi-enabled devices that respond to your voice, phone, or automation rules. Sounds futuristic, right? With the ESP8266 microcontroller, ...