Lighting is now considered a core element of home design, with 94% of professionals emphasizing its importance for client satisfaction. Homeowners are increasingly adopting layered, tunable lighting ...

These products offer convenient home enhancements, such as control and safety sensors that work without setup, a smart lock that charges itself, and blinds that automatically shield you from the sun.

Lutron has launched a line of smart wood blinds as an addition to its well-regarded Caséta smart lighting system. Designed for do-it-yourself installation, like its Caséta in-wall smart dimmers, ...

Your smart home is only as good as the wireless protocol that chains all of your devices together. Wi-Fi tends to be the network of choice for most homes and businesses, which often means that laptops ...

Lutron added new smart wood blinds to its Caséta line at CES 2026. These real basswood blinds are ideal for people who like to do things themselves. They have Natural Light Optimization (NLO), which ...

Mui’s long-gestating calm-tech board finally ships — and it’s a thoughtful, if very expensive, alternative to screens. One of the fun parts of being a tech journalist for over a decade is that ...

In Smart Home-ish in 2026 ⭐, I wrote about the first steps I took to upgrade our condo in Pennsylvania with some basic smart home capabilities. This involved taking stock of what we had, basically ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, Claude Code demonstrated powerful integration capabilities with Lutron home automation systems by autonomously discovering controllers on a local WiFi network, ...

According to Andrej Karpathy on Twitter, Claude Code demonstrated powerful integration capabilities with Lutron home automation systems by autonomously discovering controllers on a local WiFi network, ...

The importance of light in our daily lives is often underestimated. Light wakes us, guides us, and nourishes us. It can motivate and make you feel energized or create a cozy feel and help you relax.

If you have been in the smart home world for any length of time, you may have some older gear that doesn’t support Matter, such as older Zigbee sensors, Z-Wave thermostats, and IR remotes for ceiling ...