The Amazon Echo Hub might be the best smart home hub you can buy today. This easy-to-use and customisable control panel sits on your wall and has all your smart home devices from Ring, Philips Hue, ...

The electronics giant says the smart home is ready for prime time as it launches a new hub, opens its ThinQ platform to other devices, and plans to share its appliances with other ecosystems. The ...

SwitchBot is working on a new smart home hub, and it could be its best designed hub yet. The upcoming SwitchBot Hub 3 differs ...

The SwitchBot Hub 3 will bring physical smart device and media controls. The SwitchBot Hub 3 will bring physical smart device and media controls. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and ...

Flic has added Matter support to its range of smart buttons and controllers, so your Flic products can now control a huge range of smart devices. Matter support is currently being rolled out to Flic ...

You’ve probably noticed a new product category has emerged in the smart home space in 2025, in the form of a centralised control hub. Strictly speaking, smart home hubs have been around for years. But ...

LG is expanding its smart home offerings as the brand recently previewed its first-ever hub device: the ThinQ On. We don't know the specifics about the gadget at this moment, with the company keeping ...

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 ...