One of the major pain points of the modern smart home is its digital nature. Whether it’s controlling your smart lights, robot vacuum, smart lock, or thermostat, there’s a good chance you’re using a ...

Most off-the-shelf smart buttons use tiny surface-mounted tactile switches. They are hollow, plasticky, and lack the mechanical satisfaction of a real interaction that a switch typically provides you ...

If one smart button is great, two must be phenomenal, right? Well, we’ll need to wait until we can lay hands on one, but Flic is now taking discounted pre-orders on its all-new two-button Flic Duo ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. From map views and smart TVs to smart buttons and generative AI, controlling your smart home is getting simpler ...

While not all appliances can be controlled from your devices, the SwitchBot Smart Switch Button Pusher allows you to do so. By including Matter support, you can control them via HomeKit. Smart home ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Flic Twist can wirelessly control smart home devices like lights, shades, speakers, and more, and it will ...

Logitech’s neat little Pop buttons, which bring simple controls to your smart home devices, now work with Apple HomeKit. The latest Pop kit, available exclusively from the Apple store and Apple.com, ...

“Hey Google, turn off the lights!” is what my kid says every night after he’s gone up the stairs to his loft bed — and a second later, this SwitchBot Button Pusher does exactly that. This clever ...

If there ever were a case for open sourcing the code, it’s this one. It’s super hard to believe there is valuable IP behind a button. Would be trivial to make these buttons interface with IFTT, though ...

The takeaway: Proponents of smart home devices and automation have long promised a world of capabilities through internet-connected products. Logitech is now reminding users that cloud services rarely ...