Save yourself some major cash by using Zigbee.

IKEA's smart home lineup is finally moving to Matter, with affordable sensors and remotes that fix old limits and play nicer with other platforms.

If you would like to start your journey by setting up your own home automation system, Zigbee, offers a robust wireless protocol, and has been transforming the way we control and automate our homes.

This might help you choose between the two.

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 ...

The Connectivity Standards Alliance, the guys behind not only Matter but Zigbee and Aliro as well, has announced a new event - Unify - that it hopes will help to make the smart home a much more ...

Sometimes the simplest way to understand the cause-and-effect nature of automation is to start with the effect. Scenes are the easiest home automations to understand because they're simply a group of ...

Turning your home into a smart home is easier than ever. Today’s gadgets can do everything from warming the house before you wake up to locking the door behind you at night. You can ask a voice ...

IKEA smart home gear delivers stable control and $10 sensors, with Matter compatibility so you can grow the system over time.

Wondering if you should be buying from AliExpress? I tested five home tech products to see if they're worth it. John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience testing and reviewing home tech ...

I’m a smart home nerd. That’s a given after running a smart home-focused website for nearly a decade and testing pretty much every platform, system and setup available. As such, people often ask me ...