There’s more than one garage opener with a not-quite-open ecosystem. That’s why an Ars writer installed an OpenGarage unit.

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Google is taking a cautious approach to adding AI functionality to the smart home, adding just a couple convenience features ...

NRG Energy and Renew Home's virtual power plant (VPP) will deliver up to 1 GW of capacity to power 200,000 Texas homes.

The Google smart home is getting one of its biggest upgrades in years ... to bring their bikes into the garage when they ...

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But so many years into the evolution of the space, it really seems like the faults in some attempts at home automation are a ...

Home automation has come a long way. What started as a few smart gadgets here and there is now an integrated ecosystem that works to simplify life, increase sec ...

One deal that we've stumbled across is on the Echo Dot (5th generation). Right now, discount sleuths can can pick up two Echo ...

More broadly, Matter 1.4 bakes a lot of timing, energy cost, and other automation triggers into the spec, which—again, when ...

Matter 1.4 has been released, improving the interoperability of the smart home automation standard to work more easily.