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Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more than ...

The first step toward building a smart home is deciding which smart home platform to use. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are two of the best on the market, offering support for hundreds of third-party ...

Amazon recently introduced the $180 Amazon Echo Hub, a smart home control panel that streamlines management of all the connected devices in your home. You can still use your voice to control devices, ...

If you dream of a futuristic smart home with motion sensing smart lights, a smart thermostat that learns your habits or a smart security system that can tell the difference between your dog and a ...

Aside from set-up, the Alexa app comes with plenty of features to help you control your devices and smart home in general. It ...

The Echo Hub and Echo Show 8 (3rd Gen) are two of the newest products to join the Amazon catalog. Both are designed with large touchscreens and make it easy to access the Alexa voice assistant, ...

Home Assistant makes things far simpler. You have a single smart home hub that is capable of communicating with a huge range ...

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The affordable Aqara Hub M2 supports up to 128 Zigbee devices, and it has an integrated infrared blaster. But in some respects, Aqara locks you into its own ecosystem. The Aqara Hub M2 is an ...

In recent years, we've had to deal with a multitude of different smart home hubs to run all our different devices. Thankfully, though, the Matter protocol is quickly allowing us to fold all of our ...

If you’re seeking to make your home smarter, odds are you’re in between two smart home ecosystems, Amazon Alexa versus Google Home. Both Amazon Alexa- and Google Assistant-enabled devices can help ...