Here are my favorite home apps to make smart home management fast and fun, without the clutter or annoying navigation. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security ...

Smart speakers such as Alexa, Google Home, and Apple Home have transformed how people interact with technology, enabling ...

This one is for those of you who have been so unceremoniously labeled “control freaks.” What’s the point of owning a home full of smart gadgets if you have to switch apps, devices and services every ...

I’m a smart home nerd. That’s a given after running a smart home-focused website for nearly a decade and testing pretty much every platform, system and setup available. As such, people often ask me ...

With more than 20 trigger possibilities, the broadly compatible Flic Duo is a tremendously versatile and useful control-anything smart home controller. Flic’s smart button is a tiny device with a ...

There are dozens of smart devices — light bulbs, locks, displays, doorbells, security systems, indoor/outdoor cameras, thermostats, appliances, plugs, blinds, and shades — that are all vying for a ...

Mui’s long-gestating calm-tech board finally ships — and it’s a thoughtful, if very expensive, alternative to screens. One of the fun parts of being a tech journalist for over a decade is that ...