Aqara’s seven-inch touchscreen Panel Hub S1 Plus has gotten a major update that adds built-in Siri support, so you can tap Apple’s virtual assistant, even when your phone or HomePod aren’t nearby.

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 ...

R eading online about how best to improve your smart home, you'll be bombarded with the same advice. Wi-Fi is too slow or ...

Yeelight, an industry leader in smart lighting and IoT solutions, today announced the launch of its first multi-protocol smart home gateway -- the Yeelight Smart Home Hub. Certified as Matter ...

Right now, you’re getting the newest model for $254 instead of $299, which is in line with Amazon’s Black Friday strategy of cutting its own hardware’s margins to almost nothing. This is the lowest ...

Overview: Smart home hubs connect lights, speakers and devices for easy control.Options range from budget-friendly to premium sound and design.Home automation i ...

It’s official: The Google Home Hub, a smart speaker with a screen, is here, and it enters into a smart display market that is getting very crowded lately. Everyone seems to want to sell you a screen ...

At first glance, the Hubitat Elevation struck me as a pretty standard smart home hub. It has Zigbee and Z-Wave built in so it can communicate with a variety of connected gadgets. You can set up rules ...

Aqara’s Smart Lock U100 is a deadbolt style smart home lock that doesn’t break the bank. With this year’s Black Friday ...

In the beginning -- before Alexa took the smart home by storm, before tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple became the power triumvirate in the market, and even before most people had heard of ...

G oogle and Amazon are particularly good at selling the smart home vision, but these platforms have some big drawbacks, too.

When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requires a hub to consolidate the myriad ...