Whether you have Alexa, Google Home or Apple HomeKit, these tips will help you optimize your smart home.

Expertise Smart home devices, outdoors gadgets, smartphones, wearables, kid's tech, and some dabbling in 3D printing Credentials Covered the mobile and smart home tech space for the past five ...

CES 2025 showcased a remarkable array of Apple HomeKit-compatible smart home devices, signaling a significant leap forward in ...

On this episode of the HomeKit Insider Podcast, we step through the week's news, revisit the question whether to upgrade to Matter, and go hands-on with a kids smart speaker.

HomeKit and other smart devices often include only a low-power Wi-Fi radio, particularly if they’re battery-powered. Many are ...

Very useful when device has a zero-cross detection ... ESP32, ESP32-C and ESP32-S: Updated SDK version to ESP-IDF 5.4 with many bug fixes. Changelog 12.14.5: HomeKit: Several bug fixes and ...

The best smart plugs keep your home at its most efficient all year round by turning any device into a smart device, and adding the ability to control it remotely and on command. Smart plugs don ...

Since a home full of smart devices can quickly become overwhelming ... the app brings you to an edit screen where you can start dropping your HomeKit accessories and scenes directly on top of the ...

For Apple users, Matter devices integrate directly into the ... an easy sell for Apple users building their smart home on top of HomeKit, as it offers both convenience and compatibility.

This uses hap-nodejs to simulate a HomeKit device, then delegates the behavior of that device to another service communicating via MQTT. One such use case is using non-HomeKit Tuya/Teckin smart plugs ...

What you gain by adding your Velop system to the Home app is finer-grained control over how your HomeKit devices connect to the Internet, if at all. Internet access is managed from Apple’s Home app by ...