We polled our readers to learn about the smart home products they use in our Readers’ Choice Smartest Home survey. When it ...

Have you ever imagined a home that anticipates your every need—lights that adjust to your mood, a thermostat that syncs with the weather, or security systems that work seamlessly in the background?

Building a smart home begins with selecting the right ecosystem, and two prominent contenders in this space are Home Assistant and Homey Pro. Both platforms offer distinct features, advantages, and ...

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. After an announcement this weekend, however, Home Assistant’s shape is a bit easier to draw out. All of the ...

There is so much I love about Home Assistant, but I still have to fall back to Samsung SmartThings more often than I'd like.

As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...

The brand-new Home Assistant Yellow box had been collecting dust in my “gadgets to install” cardboard box for four months, with me randomly sighing and proclaiming to my husband, “We should set up ...

Google Assistant isn't what it used to be, and Gemini is something entirely different. Can these two coincide to fix the current state of the smart home? Chris Wedel Home Tech Editor Chris Wedel is a ...