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13 Benefits Of Smart Home Automation (And Why It's Worth The Hassle Of Setting It Up)

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Setting up smart home automations can feel overwhelming, and at times, downright ridiculous. You might wonder if you really need a machine ...
SlashGear

5 Smart Home Gadgets That Are Very Easy To Set Up

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We've gone from big workstations being converted into protable laptops, and then into smartphones that we carry around in our pockets. We find ...
Android Authority

Setting up your smart home could be a lot easier next time around, thanks to new Matter update

Matter 1.4.1 implements a handful of new features to ease new-device setup. Multi-device QR code setup will let you add a whole box of smart home devices while only scanning a single QR code. NFC ...
The New York Times

The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot.

Amazon and Google think that artificially intelligent assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved. By Brian X. Chen Brian ...
Ars Technica

Matter update may finally take the tedium out of setting up your smart home

There is no product category that better embodies the XKCD take on standards than smart home. With an ocean of connectivity options and incompatible standards, taming this mess has been challenging, ...