Whether you have Alexa, Google Home or Apple HomeKit, these tips will help you optimize your smart home.

Alas, the device is a bit more boring than that ... The idea was to find a simple light strip for each room that wasn’t too expensive and would work with HomeKit over Thread. After testing out a few ...

Unlike Google Home and Alexa, however, smart home products have to be certified to work with Apple's HomeKit. You'll know if a smart home device supports HomeKit as it will display a small badge ...

If you tap ‘Done’ instead, you remain in the Linksys app, which also confirms that the setup is complete. What you gain by adding your Velop system to the Home app is finer-grained control over how ...

Aqara has announced a new lineup of smart home devices at CES 2025, emphasizing tighter integration with Apple HomeKit and the Matter protocol. The flagship Panel Hub S1 Plus features a 6.9-inch ...

I found that one of our home security cameras that supports Apple’s HomeKit framework and HomeKit Secure Video for iCloud clip storage had started to flip on and off the local network. I would often ...

Whether you prefer HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Samsung SmartThings, a Matter-enabled device will work seamlessly across all these platforms. For Apple users, Matter devices ...

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we step through the week's news, revisit the question whether to upgrade to Matter, and go hands-on with a kids smart speaker.

Apple’s new smart hub could look like a HomePod with a seven-inch screen attached to it, and a higher-end version of the same device could even have a robot arm that lets it track users around the ...