Google Home's new automation editor adds a lot of powerful triggers and conditions, but it's still far behind what I require from my smart home.

Smart speakers, LED lights, and video doorbells are all must-have devices to build a smart home. They can often be individually controlled using your phone via apps from the manufacturers themselves, ...

Smart devices, on their own, are nifty, but one-note. You can turn things on or off, adjust volume or brightness, or tell your vacuum where to go. But automations are what make smart homes awesome: ...

It's more than just a thermostat, and combined with the Google Home app, you can have a full smart home solution Nest is ...

Google's making it easier to control your smart home from a computer, as it overhauls Home's web interface with new device options.

Google Home makes it easy to link your smart devices and control them from a single app. Whether that's checking your smart security camera, monitoring your lights with set schedules, or adjusting ...

Just as promised, Gemini AI is taking its first tentative steps in the Google Home app, with Nest camera feeds and home automations among the first beneficiaries. Starting this week, Gemini will be ...

Google’s revamped editor for smart home automations just got a few more tools in its toolbox, including more ways to determine when routines should be triggered as well as one-time-only automations.

Imagine a home that not only responds to your commands but also sees, understands, and acts on its own. With the integration of AI vision into the Home Assistant platform, this futuristic scenario is ...

Home automation is one of those things that's both much older than people think—the foundations were laid in 1966—and yet ...

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...