Ikea’s Smart Home Reset Goes Back to Basics

Ikea’s new 21-product series of bulbs, sensors, and remotes is dirt cheap, idiot-proof, Matter-ready, and designed to work ...
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Best Black Friday smart home deals 2025: from smart lights to robot vacuums

Sales are a great time to start or expand your smart home setup, with discounts on brands including Amazon Echo, Eufy and TP-Link Yasmine CrosslandSenior Consumer Producer/Writer Home, Technology and ...

I hacked my home with 7 smart plug tricks - here's the setup (and why it works)

Remember The Clapper? The plug-in staple may have made for a catchy jingle in the 1980s, but it could also be considered as a ...
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Google Killed Connectivity on Older Nest Thermostats. This Community Project Wants to Revive Them

Google pulled all smart functionality from its early Nest devices at the end of October, turning them into dumb thermostats ...
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The Best Ways to 'Track' Your Runs Without a Fitness Watch or App

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Yep, that's an indent from a watch. I was writing about Apple Watch features earlier that day, so I actually took the watch OFF for this run. Credit: ...