Amazon Alexa and Google Home are great control centers to navigate your new smart home, but they aren't absolute necessities. Here are other ways to make your home smarter. John Carlsen has more than ...

The Aqara Hub E1 has the power to integrate a house full of smart devices, but it lacks compatibility with generic Zigbee devices and operates only on the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band. Looking as if it were a ...

Google's Nest Hub, formally known as the Home Hub, is one of the many smart hub devices you can use to control the various accessories in your home. Powered by Google Assistant, the Nest Hub can turn ...

The Chamberlain MyQ Smart Garage Control explains itself with the name. For $29.98, it sets out to be a catchall solution for remote access to a garage door complete with intelligent features. By ...

Trading all of your home tech and appliances in for smart home gear is supposed to make your life easier, automating tasks and making it possible for you to control everything with your phone. But ...

Easy to set up and use, the Ezlo Plus can be the center of a smart home, but it lacks the across-the-board compatibility mainstream users will want. Looking to create a smart home empire by combining ...

LG has introduced a smart home hub called ThinQ ON that has the technology to control not just LG-branded appliances but also other smart home devices. It comes with a built-in speaker that gives you ...

IKEA has designed a new hub to integrate smart devices into homes as part of its push to promote its growing lineup of smart technology. Debuting alongside a new IKEA Home smart app, the DIRIGERA ...