Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. There's an XKCD comic about unifying, catch-all standards accidentally contributing to the proliferation of all kinds of protocols, ...

I recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of my first smart home purchase. After buying my first set of smart bulbs, it was a matter of days before I set up my first smart home automation using ...

What comes to mind when you think of a smart home? Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs, video doorbells, cloud-connected robot vacuums, or smart fridges perhaps? Brands like Google/Nest or everything enabled ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you’re a tech nerd, then Home Assistant may be the smart home ecosystem for you. If you’re a tech nerd, then ...

Push logic away from the server and into the device.

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Google today released a new Android OS with some modest improvements, a smartwatch with an old-but-still-newer chip, and a Pixel 8 whose biggest new feature is seven years of updates. But buried ...

If you would like to transform your house into a smart home you might be interested in a new video created by the Home Automation Guy YouTube channel providing plenty of advice to help you build the ...

Smart home automations have been touted as a way to save money. But exactly how does spending money on technology keep more dollars in your pocket? You're trying to cut costs, or are at least ...