HomeKit Weekly is a new series focused on smart home accessories, automation tips and tricks, and everything to do with Apple’s smart home framework. Before setting up an automation, you will need to ...

Discover the best smart home sensors you need in 2025, from motion to temperature, and learn how these smart home essentials ...

Before I wrote Take Control of Apple Home Automation, I documented here in TidBITS how I set up my dehumidifier to turn on automatically whenever the humidity in our underground TV room rose to an ...

I have always wanted to automate my entire home by installing sensors for various things along with controls for the lights and more. Two things make adding home automation a big issue for existing ...

Do you need a bunch of tiny sensors all over your house to collect data? Probably not. But if you want some, an up-and-coming Polish startup by the name of Clime might be worth checking out. The ...

Belkin launched its WeMo home automation brand two years ago at CES 2013 with just a handful of Wi-Fi devices. The ecosystem has grown dramatically since then, culminating in today’s announcement of a ...

Amid a bevy of Amazon-related announcements surrounding Kindle – some intentional (the arrival of Kindle MatchBook), some not (news of an updated Kindle Paperwhite leaked a bit early) – Amazon has ...

Smart homes of the future will automatically adapt to their surroundings using an array of sensors to record everything from the building’s temperature and humidity to the light level and air quality.

The EnOcean Alliance, a consortium of companies working to standardize and internationalize energy harvesting wireless technology for green intelligent buildings, announced today that its wireless, ...