
The astute location holds truthful overmuch promise. It tin marque beingness much convenient with lights that crook connected arsenic you locomotion successful a room, doors that unlock arsenic you approach, and robots that clean your floors. It tin besides marque your location safer, much vigor efficient, and adjacent a small much fun. (Have you tried asking Alexa to beam you up?)
But for each its benefits, the astute location tin beryllium complicated, confusing, and occasionally maddening. It’s besides hard to support up with each the changes. New gadgets are arriving daily, caller features travel to aged products, and determination are so many antithetic ways to crook connected a astute airy bulb.
If you request a guide, that’s what I’m present for.
Here, I’ll beryllium posting the latest astute location reviews, guides, news, and opinions connected everything happening successful the connected home. Follow this leafage to enactment updated connected what Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Google, and Home Assistant and the remainder are doing with their smart location platforms. I’ll support you successful the loop connected each the newest technologies — including Matter, Thread, Sidewalk, UWB — arsenic good arsenic the aged favorites. And, of course, I’ll screen each the quality connected the latest gadgets and the biggest releases astir tech for your home.
- Amazon joins Apple, Google, and Samsung successful accepting Matter trial results for its Works With program.
- Your Amazon Echo volition soon nonstop each your dependable recordings to the cloud, adjacent if you told it not to.
- Amazon to present premium Alexa-powered hardware.
- Amazon is ending the enactment to not nonstop Echo dependable recordings to the cloud
- These caller Roombas aren’t the robots I cognize and love
- Home Assistant makes it official.
- iRobot tells investors its aboriginal is successful doubt
- iRobot launches 8 caller Roombas and yet adds lidar mapping
- The champion robot vacuums
- You tin present power your Abode information strategy from your Apple TV.
- Ikea registered a Matter-over-Thread somesthesia sensor with the FCC
- With Alexa Plus, Amazon yet reinvents its champion product
- Alexa Plus is overmuch easier to chat with.
- Eve adds a Matter implicit Thread dimmer switch.
- What to expect from Amazon’s big Alexa event this week
- Skylight conscionable doubled its subscription price.
- This astute thermostat institution is considering charging users for its app
- Skylight Calendar Max review: a game-changer for engaged parents
- Ring’s caller information camera supports 2K video retired of the box
- This astute video fastener unlocks with a question of your hand
- Get a look astatine this stunner.
- Apple’s smart home robot could really beryllium a lamp.
- This Pixar-style dancing lamp hints astatine Apple’s aboriginal location robot
- Here’s wherefore your astute fridge needs an expiration date
- There’s a hidden connection successful Amazon’s lawsuit invites
- I tried the tech that makes hands-free astute locks really work
- Matter plans to hole your location Wi-Fi.
- Here’s different usage for that Thread vigor successful your iPhone.
- mmWave tech is acceptable to instrumentality question sensing to the adjacent level successful the astute home.
- Matter will beryllium amended successful 2025 — accidental the radical who marque it
- Here’s the tech that could crook millions of Zigbee airy bulbs into question sensors with a azygous update
- These POE astute shades are the archetypal to enactment with Matter.
- You tin present power your LG appliances with Homey.
- The Google Home app volition soon enactment the Nest Protect
- Robot vacuums conscionable support growing
- This mechanical keyboard tin power your astute home.
- Nanoleaf brought astute lighting for the look to CES.
- This robovac has an limb — and legs, too
- The champion astute locks you tin bargain close now
- The champion fund robot vacuums
- This feline histrion is besides an aerial purifier
- LG’s caller astute talker has bosom eyes.
- Yes, I’m taking a representation of Vee with a doorway lock.
- Narwal’s latest mopping robovac keeps corners clean
- Eufy’s caller robovac transforms into a handheld vacuum
- Eureka’s caller robot vac tin tackle bedewed messes
- LG’s broadside array turn airy is besides a speaker.
- This robot vacuum has legs
- This $700 doorway grip has an full information suite built in
- Oh yeah, that’s a astute canine doorway with customized RGB lighting
- Lifx made its archetypal astute lamp
- Bird Buddy’s caller camera tracks plants and insects successful your garden
- Ecobee launches an adjacent cheaper astute thermostat
- This astute crib tin archer erstwhile your babe poops.
- This tiny fastener pulls disconnected the partition and controls your lights and euphony with gestures
- Aqara’s caller seven-inch location power tablet tin regenerate a airy switch
- This sleek doorbell camera is besides a astute location hub
- This large ol’ astute show fits close into an electrical container and controls your home
- Honeywell Home’s archetypal Matter thermostat costs conscionable $80
- Schlage’s sleek caller astute fastener ditches keys for UWB
- Ring is making a astute fume alarm
- Ring is upgrading its outdoor cameras with 2K solution (even if you already ain them)
- This location information camera tin besides show for falls and telephone for help
- The Home Depot made a astute aerial conditioner.
- Ultraloq’s UWB-powered astute fastener volition outgo $400.
- This portable information camera has a week of escaped unreality recording
- Tapo’s palm-scanning doorway fastener promises a afloat twelvemonth of artillery life
- This outdoor information cam adds a 2nd camera that moves and zooms
- Apple, Google, and Samsung volition judge Matter certification of astute location products
- This adorable astute camera watches wildlife, not lowlifes.
- Aiper’s astute sprinkler limits its spray to a representation of your lawn
- Lutron’s caller astute shades outgo nether $400.
- SwitchBot’s caller video doorbell comes with an in-home display
- SwitchBot is bringing a Rosie the Robot wannabe to CES
- This robovac has an limb that tin prime up your soiled laundry
- EcoFlow’s Oasis could beryllium a almighty instrumentality for simplifying your home’s vigor use
- Samsung’s astute fridges volition usage AI to suggest groceries to bargain connected Instacart
- Matter speakers are coming to watercourse euphony and archer you erstwhile the lavation is done
- Home Assistant’s caller dependable adjunct answers to ‘Hey Jarvis’
- Homey launches a $200 astute location hub
- This Z-Wave astute plug tin enactment implicit a mile from your house
- iRobot’s laminitis is moving connected a caller benignant of location robot
- Nest Learning Thermostat review: beauteous smart
- A Gemini-boosted Google Assistant is present disposable connected some Nest speakers
- Homey adds caller vigor absorption features and a dongle
- Samsung’s Music Sync is getting a deeper integration with YouTube Music.
- This startup is trying to disrupt your fridge.
- Every astute location instrumentality that works with Matter
- Homey’s caller dashboards look sweet.
- This caller astute thermostat from Meross works with Matter
- Ikea’s astute lights tin present automatically set passim the day
- Level extends its Matter upgrade to its Bolt astute lock.
- Tapo’s $30 astute outlet works with Matter and keeps way of energy usage.
- Eve’s caller app unlocks much astute features for Android users
- Apple Home enactment for robot vacuums has been delayed to 2025
- The champion Cyber Monday astute location deals
- The champion Cyber Monday robot vacuum deals you tin get from iRobot, Roborock, and more
- Ecobee thermostats are getting a caller vigor absorption feature.
- Apple’s archetypal astute show needs to marque the smart home just work
- Amazon’s new Echo Show 21 has a immense surface and built-in smart home hub
- Flic’s hub is present a scriptable Matter Controller
- Alexa whitethorn get smarter with much APIs alternatively than much AI
- Level’s latest fastener supports Matter implicit Thread.
- Some of Google Home’s Gemini-powered features are arriving this week.
- Apple could motorboat a astute information camera successful 2026
- This tiny astute fastener promises to unlock your doorway successful nether 2 seconds
- Blink’s newest hub takes its information cameras beyond Wi-Fi
- Matter 1.4 tries to acceptable the astute location modular backmost connected track
- Amazon’s caller Alexa has reportedly slipped to 2025
- Eero’s caller merchandise takes Wi-Fi beyond your walls
- Now you tin unlock your doorway from Ecobee’s app
- Kwikset takes a astute attack with its caller astute lock
- The champion Prime Day astute location deals we found
- Ring’s video past hunt is ace useful for tracking my cat
- Samsung SmartThings becomes the archetypal level to enactment Matter 1.3.
- Samsung is turning your Galaxy telephone into a astute doorway key
- Ring is yet adding 24/7 signaling to its information cameras
- Sleep Number’s newest astute furniture aims to tackle nighttime sweats
- Samsung is partnering with Ashley Furniture to merchantability you connected the astute home
- This astute beforehand doorway tin spell from wide to opaque with a dependable command
- This Eufy information camera tin amusement nighttime arsenic if it were daytime
- Arlo cameras tin present admit radical and vehicles
- Home Assistant reminds everyone that Z-Wave is inactive relevant.
- Apparently, “Remarkable Alexa” can’t reliably crook connected the lights.
- Google is bringing its astute location sheet to each Google TV devices
- Google TV Streamer review: smarter than your mean set-top box
- Apple present lets you adhd Matter devices to Apple Home without a hub
- Eufy’s caller astute fastener whitethorn Matter to Apple Home users
- LG yet gets superior astir the astute home
- This is the archetypal astute fastener to enactment ultra wideband
- After ditching August, Assa Abloy snaps up different astute fastener startup
- Ikea’s astute location hub present supports Matter
- Nanoleaf launches a astute power aft 8 years of trying
- Samsung is putting a ringing connected your astute home.
- Dreame’s conception robovac tin ascent (small) steps.
- Aqara’s caller touchscreen astute location controls are ace slick.
- I recovered a Matter-compatible fridge astatine IFA. And it’s extra.
- Here’s Switchbot’s unannounced caller video doorbell solution.
- Nanoleaf’s caller partition panels tin amusement disconnected your plants and Funko Pops
- Nanoleaf’s imperishable outdoor lights get conscionable successful clip for the holidays.
- Philips Hue launches a caller astute lighting solution for the kitchen
- The Philips Hue 8K sync container arrives for $350
- Aqara’s astute location dependable power strategy isn’t ever listening
- The 4 changes successful Thread 1.4 that could hole the protocol
- I’m heading to Berlin to question solutions for the astute kitchen
- With AI nutrient designation Samsung Food could beryllium the eventual meal-planning app
- Wyze’s AI tin present hunt your camera footage truthful you don’t person to
- LG’s caller astute location hub has a built-in dependable assistant
- Brilliant is backmost from the brink
- Ring’s fund artillery doorbell tin present spot packages near connected your porch
- Tapo’s caller flagship doorbell camera does much for less
- SwitchBot’s tiny robot vacuum gets immoderate large upgrades.
- Samsung’s caller Family Care work helps caregivers show loved ones
- Adaptive Lighting is coming to Matter astute lights successful Apple Home
- Redesigning the Nest Learning Thermostat took “courage.”
- Gemini quality is coming to Google Home
- The Google TV Streamer mightiness beryllium the Apple TV 4K rival we’ve been waiting for
- Aqara’s caller mmWave beingness sensor is cheaper, simpler, and works with Matter.
- Consumer Reports is naming and shaming astute location companies without due information vulnerability reporting.
- Meross has a caller mmWave beingness sensor for conscionable $36, and it works with Matter.
- Echo Spot review: this astute alarm timepiece hits a saccharine spot
- Logitech’s Circle View Doorbell is safe… for now
- ADT’s caller astute information strategy volition unlock your doorway for a Trusted Neighbor
- Google brings Nest Hello enactment to the Home app
- Amazon is discontinuing my favourite Echo — the 1 with a dot-matrix clock
- A caller Nest Learning Thermostat mightiness beryllium connected the way
- The adjacent Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box will enactment 8K.
- Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to capable a $25 cardinal spread dug by Echo devices
- The newest Roomba tin lavation its ain mop and volition enactment with Matter
- Zero to 100 in 40 seconds? Yes, please.
- Eve’s compact upwind presumption gets Matter support.
- Lutron’s latest Diva deals with your much melodramatic lighting.
- Five futures for Apple’s HomeScreenPod
- Philips Hue rolls retired a hole for its Matter-related bug.
- First, Apple enactment Thread successful the iPhone, present the astute location vigor could beryllium coming to Android phones.
- How to determination a astute home
- Apple TV’s InSight tin instantly adhd tracks to your Apple Music library.
- If your Philips Hue bulbs person been acting wonky, don’t interest there’s a hole coming.
- This is the archetypal retrofit astute fastener to enactment Apple’s Home Key.
- Amazon’s vying for a ‘spot’ connected your bedside table.
- This is the summer’s coolest caller astute room gadget — literally
- Apple’s rumored HomePod with a surface could get with Apple Intelligence.
- Amazon is bricking its Astro concern robots little than a twelvemonth aft launch
- LG buys Homey successful a precise Samsung SmartThings move
- This crystal shaper is my family’s caller favourite astute gadget.
- These are the robot vacuums that volition enactment with Matter.
- This astute leak detector tin pass you if your food vessel is draining.
- Samsung SmartThings takes a measurement toward a smarter grid
- A large SmartThings update brings enactment for appliances, robot vacuums, and much through Matter
- These astute lights could lick the room furniture problem