Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Govee has announced two new smart floor lamps: the Floor Lamp 2 and the Floor Lamp Pro. Both these
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Google Home adds new routine option to read out your Fitbit stats
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Home can now read your Fitbit and sleep data out loud. The new option can be set as
Google could bring radar-based fall detection to the Nest Hub
Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Google has filed a patent for fall detection via smart home devices using a radar system. The feature would
The Govee Neon Rope Light 2 gave my home office some much needed color
I recently tried out Govee’s Neon Rope Light 2, a significant upgrade from its predecessor, now featuring Matter compatibility. The idea of enhancing the ambiance
Do smart homes save energy? Mine does and here’s how
Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority Talk about building a smart home online and I can almost guarantee that someone will call you lazy for not
This TP-Link smart home hub reminds me so much of the Pixel Tablet
At MWC, TP-Link showed me its new Matter-compatible smart home hub, the Tapo H500 Smart HomeBase. And there’s just something about it that reminded me
The Amazon Echo Hub makes smart home control a piece of cake
TL;DR The Amazon Echo Hub is an Alexa-equipped smart home hub with an 8-inch display. It supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Sidewalk, Thread, and Matter, so
Wyze breach let 13,000 users to peek into the homes of other customers
TL;DR Wyze accidentally let up to 13,000 users briefly see into the homes of other customers. The breach is far greater than what was initially
10 years of Google owning Nest, and things are still a mess
In 2010, a pair of former Apple engineers started Nest Labs. The company’s debut product, the Nest Learning Thermostat, was an instant hit. Just under
Homey Pro is the best smart home product in my house…until it isn’t
Homey Pro (2023) The Homey Pro is a terrific smart home device that sets out to solve the biggest problem plaguing the category: fragmentation. While