Smart products are everywhere you look these days. Wander the aisles of any brick-and-mortar (or online) retailer and you’ll probably see numerous smart devices designed to make living your best life ...

Smart home automation can offer a sense of ease and cohesiveness. Having a smart home hub means your devices from different manufacturers are connected and can interact with each other via one home ...

SmartThings remains the easiest path to a DIY smart home, but there’s little to be gained—and a lot of pain to endured—from upgrading from the second-generation hub. Samsung SmartThings has been the ...

The Aqara Hub E1 has the power to integrate a house full of smart devices, but it lacks compatibility with generic Zigbee devices and operates only on the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band. Looking as if it were a ...

The Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage Control explains itself with the name. For $29.98, it sets out to be a catchall solution for remote access to a garage door complete with intelligent features. By ...

It's the first brand-specific hub that shows enough promise to have a multi-hub future, if not just yet. Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food ...

If you're starting a smart home from scratch, you can skip getting a hub.

Trading all of your home tech and appliances in for smart home gear is supposed to make your life easier, automating tasks and making it possible for you to control everything with your phone. But ...

Your old iPad or Android tablet can be your new smart home panel - here's how ...

You can stream music, pictures and videos from your PC to your Samsung Smart TV through the Samsung Smart Hub, provided that both devices are connected to the same ...

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