Not sure how a smart home works or what kind of devices it needs? As a smart home expert, I'm breaking it all down. For more than 10 years Tyler has used his experience in smart home tech to craft how ...

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A smart home can be as simple or as complex as you like. It might be made up of a single light bulb controlled by a smartphone app, or it could be a sprawling system of interconnected devices, ...

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I’m a smart home nerd. That’s a given after running a smart home-focused website for nearly a decade and testing pretty much every platform, system and setup available. As such, people often ask me ...

From lazy mornings to busy workdays, Echo 5th Gen isn’t just a smart speaker, it’s users’ personal scheduler, alarm, and DJ.