Why Your Smart Home Needs a Summer Tune-Up You set up your smart home in the winter. Your thermostat learns your heating schedule, your lights turn on at 4:30 PM because that is when it gets dark, and your automations assume you are inside most of the day. Summer changes everything. Days are longer, you … Read more
Why Your Front Door Is the Smartest Place to Start If you own one smart home device, it should probably be a video doorbell. It tells you who is at your door from anywhere, records package deliveries, deters porch pirates, and costs less than most other smart devices. But with Ring, Nest, Wyze, and Aqara … Read more
What if you could keep your wall switch and make it smart? For years, the smart home lighting dilemma has been simple but frustrating: you either replace your bulbs with smart ones and lose wall-switch control, or you stick with dumb bulbs and miss out on automation. The new LIFX Smart Dimmer Switch, which started … Read more
iRobot went bankrupt, got acquired by a Chinese robotics company, and came back with eight new Roomba models that are smaller, cheaper, and finally competitive again. If you wrote off Roomba after the failed Amazon acquisition and the financial collapse, the 2026 lineup deserves a second look. Here is what changed, what did not, and … Read more
Smart blinds and curtains are the most underrated smart home upgrade you can make for summer. Everyone talks about smart thermostats and energy monitoring, but automated window treatments can cut your cooling costs by up to 45 percent according to recent studies, and they do it without you ever touching a button. Here’s how to … Read more
Here is an eye-opening video from Undecided with Matt Ferrell that explores what smart speakers like Alexa actually collect and the privacy implications: Smart Home Devices Collect More Data Than You Think Your smart home devices track voice recordings, video footage, occupancy patterns, and entry times. Individually, each device collects a slice of your life. … Read more
You locked the door, set the thermostat, and asked your neighbor to check on the cat. But your smart home can do better than that — and it never forgets, never oversleeps, and never gets distracted by a pool party notification while your basement floods. Vacation used to mean worrying. Worrying about the pipes, the … Read more
The Thread Group just launched a free app that visualizes your Thread Smart Home network — showing every device, signal strength, and routing path. Here’s how to use it and why it matters. Thread Tools App: See Your Smart Home Network Like Never Before If you use Matter devices with Thread networking — and increasingly, … Read more
Samsung is building actual houses now — modular homes with AI, IoT, and smart appliances built in from the factory. Could this be the future of the Smart Home? Samsung AI Modular Homes: Smart Home Built From the Ground Up The smart home industry has always had a fundamental problem: you’re retrofitting technology into houses … Read more
Ring’s Intercom brings video doorbell features to apartment dwellers with existing intercom systems — no drilling, no wiring, renter-friendly. Here’s how it works and whether it’s worth it. Ring Intercom: Smart Home Security for Apartment Renters One of the biggest frustrations in smart home security is that most video doorbells require drilling, wiring, or permanent … Read more
