First Alert's new OneLink Safe & Sound will be part smoke and carbon monoxide detector, part "premium" speaker, and part digital voice assistant. The concept is intriguing, but we're concerned that…
Home Automation
Microsoft's Cortana is finally in a home voice assistant. They partnered with audio experts, Harman Kardon to produce the Invoke. Read on for our Invoke review.
CES is right around the corner, and in what has become something of a tradition, we’re joined by one of the tech experts from CNET’s Smart Home. This year, Megan Wollerton helps recap last year’s CES…
LEDVANCE has introduced some new additions to its HomeKit-compatible Sylvania SMART+ lighting line, including a first-of-its-kind smart filament-style LED bulb. These won't be available until April…
Harman Kardon has released a Cortana-powered speaker while Apple delays its own, Wink gets into the security space as ADT puts legal pressure on Ring, and one of our favorites, Stack Lighting, has…
What do you do when a smart home loses its mind? The smart home hubs available today are inexpensive electronic appliances with lots of components that can—and at some point likely will—fail. So how…
Stack Labs, the company behind the heralded Stack Lighting smart bulbs, is no longer selling consumer lighting. They've pivoted to using their groundbreaking sensor technology to help care facilities…
The Smart Kitchen Summit's curator, Mike Wolf, joins us to review the discussions that Richard facilitated at this year's event. Included in this episode, you'll hear Richard's own panel, Don't Brick…
Amazon adds the ability to create custom commands for Alexa by defining routines. Like most things in the Alexa app, the implementation is sloppy, but the potential is there.
With lots of new security products in the news, who better to join us than Home Alarm Report’s Rose Thibodeaux! We walk through the anticipated offerings from Nest and Ring, plus we look at all the…
CEDIA 2017 was in San Diego this year, and we were on the ground to see what’s trending. We spoke with some of our old friends, and we spent time with some vendors we haven’t previously interviewed…
Today at CEDIA, Logitech announced that its new Circle 2 camera is now HomeKit compatible. With this announcement, Logitech's camera is now more versatile than ever, integrating with many other third…
