What if managing your smart home felt less like a chore and more like second nature? In this walkthrough, Home Assistant ...

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Smart-home systems maker Brilliant unveiled a new “install it anywhere” plug-in version of its Smart Home Control Panel Tuesday. Any homeowner or renter can use its touchscreen-based control and ...

Not crazy about talking to Siri, Alexa or Gemini? You can easily create a voice assistant-free smart home with these tricks.

Imagine walking into your home and, with a single tap on a sleek, wall-mounted screen, adjusting the lights, setting the perfect temperature, or even queuing up your favorite playlist, all without ...

I spent $10 on a smart home remote on the off-chance that I’d find some use for it. Now I’m sad I only bought one, since I’ve found so many good uses for it in my Home Assistant smart home. I’m ...

Smart plugs are an easy way to get smart lighting, but they only work with lamps and they only control one device. Brilliant makes one of the more sophisticated whole-home smart lighting solutions, ...

As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...

It’s been a few years since Google took the first steps towards what has now become its most ubiquitous and consistent feature across multiple devices: the smart home panel. What started out as simple ...

Expensive upfront costs Fundamentally alters your home. There are a lot of different reasons why you might want a whole-home backup battery. Perhaps you lose power frequently. You might be expecting ...

There are two key things that a smart home allows you to do. The first is that you can use it to control your devices ...

Any aspiring smart home junkie eventually hits what I call the Smart Wall. You’ll ask yourself a question like “How do I set my Nest thermostat to have a two-degree temperature window?” You do a ...