Smart Home Perfected

SmartThings is Samsung's smart home platform, and it is one of the most established ways to control devices from dozens of different brands through a single app. It began as a standalone company, was acquired by Samsung in 2014, and has grown into a hub and app combination that connects Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, and WiFi devices in one place. If you own a recent Samsung...

Amazon Sidewalk is a feature that quietly turns your Echo and Ring devices into part of a shared neighborhood network, and most owners were enrolled in it automatically without ever choosing to be. It carves off a small slice of your home internet to help nearby Amazon devices stay connected, and their devices return the favor for yours. The idea is convenience. The catch is ...

Smart security lights are one of the simplest ways to make a property feel watched without pointing a camera at anyone. A bright light that snaps on the moment something moves does most of the work a camera does, which is to make an intruder decide your house is not worth the trouble, and it does that without recording a single second of footage or sending anything to a serve...

If you have spent any time researching a smart home in 2026, you have run into the same three names over and over: Matter protocol, Zigbee, and Thread. The names get used interchangeably in marketing copy, the box on the shelf at Home Depot lists all three, and the difference between them is the kind of thing nobody bothers to explain because it sounds like a job for an engin...

If your baby monitor or security camera uses the CloudEdge app, you may be one of the 1.1 million people whose device was just exposed.

In May 2026, security researcher Sammy Azdoufal disclosed a set of vulnerabilities in Meari Technology's camera platform that left approximately 1.1 million baby monitors and security cameras open to remote access across 118 countries....