These five essential apps can help make your smart home feel more connected, streamlined, and capable in 2026 without replacing your devices.

There's finally a handy app arriving to aid you in setting your smart home Thread mesh network and troubleshooting problems.

The new Thread Tools app gives you ‘visibility’ into your network to help troubleshoot smart homes.

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Google’s products and services have been flooded with AI features over the past couple of years, but smart home has been largely spared until now. The company’s plans to replace Assistant are moving ...

Apple Intelligence is coming to the Home app, and it can now read your camera footage, summarize what happened, and let you search clips by what they captured.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your I ...

The Android ecosystem has come a long way in empowering smart home users. With each major OS update and every new batch of app releases, controlling your lights, thermostat, security system, or even ...

Once you've added a device, you can then control it from the Home Assistant dashboard. You can add as many areas and devices ...

I know some people think that a lot of smart home tech is frivolous, and some of it is, I’ll agree, but there are certain things that make daily life a little better. For example, I have security ...

Amazon, Google, and Samsung are all working on an exciting way to bring AI to smart homes – and Apple risks being left behind. Samsung is first to launch the new feature: the ability to use natural ...