“Smart lighting should enhance your space both functionally and aesthetically,” says Kara Perdue, VP of Product Management at GE Lighting, a Savant company.. “With the new Clear Full Color Direct ...

Matter may have got off to a bumpy start, but the smart home standard looks set to play a bigger role in the smart home world in 2025 and beyond.. However, while smart home platforms such as Amazon’s ...

Routines on Alexa are a series of automated events that happen based on a single command. That could be all your lights turning off, your electric blanket turning on (thanks to a smart plug) and your ...

Shelly, a favorite among smart home enthusiasts, is making strides toward mainstream adoption with the announcement of nine new devices from its Z-Wave lineup gaining SmartThings certification. The ...

Smart Life: What’s on offer. Search the internet and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a device that’s actually listed as Smart Life. Instead, it’s the base technology that many smart home devices run on ...

The top Matter controllers, certified devices, Thread border routers and more. Matter officially launched at the end of 2022, and from what we’ve seen so far, 2025 looks set to be the year that the ...

Control4: My setup. A review of a Control4 system is an incredibly difficult thing to do because no two systems will be the same. However, the one essential ingredient of any Control4 setup is the ...

Works with SmartThings certification efforts ramp up. Samsung’s SmartThings is making it easier than ever to integrate Philips Hue products into its smart home ecosystem.. Thanks to a strengthened ...

Part of the Candr Media Group, The Ambient is designed to be the first and last word in the smart home. We’re dedicated to demystifying this new world of connected home technology. The Ambient is here ...

How to reboot a Sonos speaker (soft reset) For a lot of problems, rebooting your Sonos speaker, whether you have an Era 100, Era 300 or another model, should do the trick when it comes to fixing ...

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