Smart Home

These Alexa skills will put a smile on your face.

Seeing a strange-colored glow on your Echo? Here's what the green, yellow, red, orange and purple lights mean.

Smart TVs often have pretty dumb security and can create big privacy risks. Here's how to reduce your exposure.

The Amazon Echo is a smart home device, personal assistant and speaker in one. Here's everything you need to know.

Sonos audio devices are known for multiroom music playback, smart assistants, and support for all the major streaming services. Here's your guide to Sonos speakers.

Philips makes a wide number of smart LED light bulbs that offer a mix of colors and lighting effects that you can control remotely. Here’s a guide.

You can now turn your iPhone into a universal remote for your smart home with Apple HomeKit. Here's how.

Guides, tips, tricks and how-tos for getting the most out of the Google Home, Home Hub, Home Max, Home Mini and other Google Assistant-enabled smart devices.

Google has a new 10-inch smart display with a built-in camera.

After numerous complaints, Google will no longer summarily end its Works with Nest program. Here are the smart home devices that will be affected, and what you can do.

We asked the stars of HGTV's Property Brothers for their advice on selling a smart home.

Alexa can be scarier than you think.

The Sonos Beam is a compact soundbar with Alexa integration that lets you control your TV and do a lot more. But is it right for you?

Google Duplex promises to take tasks like booking appointments and put them in the hands of human-sounding robots. Here’s a rundown of what we know so far.

We take a look to see if Amazon's Home Security suites are a good deal.

Amazon is releasing a child-friendly, Alexa-powered smart speaker, called the Echo Dot Kids Edition. But how does this new speaker differ from the regular Echo Dot?

Smart-home devices use a bewildering array of wireless network protocols. Which ones should you use?

From Santa trackers to dreidel spinners, these 15 Alexa skills will help see you through the holidays.

Amazon is offering experts to help you with things like TV installation, smart home setup, making sure your Wi-Fi is running smoothly and other tasks.

These two smart speakers are both powerful and versatile, but which one is best for you?

Amazon Alexa is a versatile digital assistant that answers questions and performs all sorts of tasks. Here's what you need to know.

Google Home is a smart speaker (similar to Amazon's Echo) that uses artificial intelligence to answer your questions and obey certain commands.