It's getting worse with time.

Matter promised an end to walled gardens and ecosystem lock-in. It promised to make a smart home device, like a lock, ...

How do you solve the problem of growing a popular smart home platform committed to open-source, open-standard ideals into something bigger that stays true to those ideals? You create a foundation. At ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. There's an XKCD comic about unifying, catch-all standards accidentally contributing to the proliferation of all kinds of protocols, ...

Got a spare PC? How to open-source your smart home - for free ...

Matter 1.6 is the latest update to the smart home standard used by many major brands, and it focuses less on adding new ...

Amazon Alexa has long been one of the most popular smart home platforms, as it offers a robust suite of hub devices (like the Echo Show 8) and supports hundreds of third-party products. Hubspace, by ...

MIAMI, FL, January 8, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- SKYX Platforms Corp. (NASDAQ: SKYX) (d/b/a SKYX Technologies) (the “Company” or “SKYX”), a highly disruptive smart home platform technology company with ...

Kohler and Control4 have entered into a partnership to help deliver a new level of connected luxury shower experiences at-home. The integration of Anthem+ with Control4 brings together Kohler’s water ...

Reliance Industries unveiled Jio TeleFrame, a voice-based AI platform, at its 49th AGM, designed as a smart home hub ...

Apple HomeKit is a smart home automation platform that launched in 2014 for iPhone and iPad, then later expanded to other Apple devices. But there’s every chance you’ve never used the platform, or the ...