Google Assistant Smart-Home Starter Kit. Grant Clauser. Grant Clauser is an editor who has written about audio, video, and smart-home technology for more than 20 years. Save.

The Google Home app has become a much better control center for your smart home in the past few months, but you still couldn't set up most gadgets with it. Hopefully, this kit will start to change ...

Google. If you think the smart home isn't quite smart enough, Google is now offering the tools to do something about it. The Google AIY Vision Kit gives you all the pieces you'd need to build your ...

Vivint’s smart home starter kits now include two Google Home Minis. What’s it all cost? Vivint’s systems are simpler than the high-end offerings from providers like Control4 and Savant, who ...

In a related announcement, Google said it will release its own Matter-focused software development kit for Google Home devices to go along with the upcoming open-source Matter specification and SDK.

Google's AIY Projects program — a combination of DIY (do it yourself) and AI (artificial intelligence) — have announced a revamped set of build-it-yourself kits, aiming to bring computer ...

GOOGLE fans looking to try something new - and a little festive - with their Google Home smart home kit today need to test these new voice commands, hidden tricks and jokes with their Google Nest ...

A smart home ecosystem makes it easy to control multiple devices. We compared Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit to see which is best.

Matter has the promise of finally uniting the smart home under one standard, and slowly, that promise is coming to reality.Currently, Google is rolling out an update to its Nest Thermostat that ...

Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers to use its ... The kit costs $44.99 and will ship through Micro Center on ... EcoFlow brings its plug-in solar power plant to US homes.

You’ll often find Google Home compatibility alongside other platforms, particularly Alexa, so there’s flexibility to switch sides further down the line without having to re-buy all your hardware.