One of the first smart device products we tested at GearBrain many years ago was smart blinds and shades. Many of them were ...

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Have you ever wished you could light up a room just by walking in? Well, aside from relying on your sparkling personality, smart home devices are perfect for this, and they are simple to set up on ...

There's a new series of smart locks in town, and they're more compact than ever: Lockly's Zeno series is here, with low-profile, high-end smart locks that extend built-in compatibility to Apple ...

Apple’s much-rumored smart home shake-up could see HomeKit quietly retired from consumer-facing branding, right as the Cupertino tech giant readies its most ambitious home hardware lineup ever. The ...

It has been nearly 11 years since Apple introduced its HomeKit smart home framework, and the technical term “HomeKit” is often used to refer to anything related to Apple’s smart home technology. But ...

Apple's tvOS 26 beta removing HomeKit branding and adding "Apple Home" shouldn't be a surprise, since Apple has been on that road for two years. HomeKit is now over ten years old, having been ...

Matter is a smart home standard that continues to grow and is quickly becoming one of the most important steps in home automation since automation and smart homes became a thing. Taking advantage of ...

Apple Home, previously referred to as Apple HomeKit, is a smart home platform that lets you control all your smart gadgets in one place. The Home app is a powerful solution for home automation, ...

Apple is officially ending support for the prior version of Apple Home this year, and the company has been encouraging users to update to the new HomeKit architecture by that time to avoid ...

In 2018, Tonya and I replaced our perfectly functional roof at the behest of our insurance company, which believed that any shingles from 1984 should go the way of the mullet, regardless of their ...

Recently, we received a custom-made-to-order smart shade from SmartWings for review. We never heard about SmartWings before, but the company claims to have been in the smart blind/shade and home ...