Smart home news, reviews, and guides — making your home smarter.
Smart home news, reviews, and guides — making your home smarter.
Apple has confirmed that select Apple Home Collection accessories will be available to order starting Friday, November 13, with the first products arriving in December. The cameras, video doorbell, thermostats, and smart lock developed with LG and Schneider Electric go on sale the same day the HomeView display reaches stores.
Read MoreXiaomi confirmed on November 11 that its November 17 Paris event will debut four Mijia smart-home appliances alongside the Xiaomi 18 Pro phones: a new Robot Vacuum 6 Max, a 12kg washer-dryer, a 546L multi-door fridge, and a cordless vacuum. Pricing and market availability are still to come. We break down what to watch on stage in Paris.
Read MoreToday’s verified smart home deals are all about hands-off floor cleaning, with three robot vacuums at real early Black Friday discounts of up to 44% off. Save on the compact SwitchBot K11+, the budget-friendly Roborock Q7 L5, and the powerful eufy C28 — every price checked on the retailer’s own product page on November 12, 2026.
Read MoreYeelight’s Smart Ambient Lamp S2 is a rechargeable, Matter-over-Thread table lamp with RGB and tunable white light from 1800K to 6500K, more than 70 built-in effects, and a 4,000mAh battery rated for up to 6.5 hours. Priced at $69.99, it works with Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home, and SmartThings without a Yeelight hub. We cover the design, the Matter trade-offs, and the battery limits.
Read MoreNabu Casa has launched the Home Assistant Connect AUX-2, a $69 multi-tool that brings older speakers, TVs, and serial-controlled gear into a modern smart home. With lossless audio output, two RS-232 ports, a Bluetooth proxy, and USB hosting for Z-Wave and Zigbee radios, the deck-of-cards-sized box is built to keep the devices you already own useful for years.
Read MoreZillow’s 2027 Home Trends Report, published November 10, finds mentions of AI up 119% in for-sale listings — the largest jump in the data. App-controlled home systems rose 34%, whole-home batteries 43% and fresh-air systems 52%, while tech-free spaces to unplug climbed just as fast. We break down what the numbers mean for smart home buyers and sellers.
Read MoreRoku is leaving the smart home business. Days after Fox closed its roughly $22 billion acquisition, the streaming company confirmed it will wind down sales of smart home hardware — including cameras, video doorbells, smart lights, and its home monitoring system — to refocus on streaming. Existing products will keep working, but Roku’s four-year smart home experiment is over.
Read MoreCode found in Apple’s pre-release HomeView software suggests the $299 smart display could later double as a HomeKit Secure Video camera and run third-party AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude. Neither feature is officially confirmed, but the leaked setup flows and software references look substantial ahead of the November 13 launch.
Read MoreToday’s verified smart home deals bring early Black Friday savings of up to 70% off: a flagship eufy robot vacuum and mop, Ring’s newest 2K spotlight camera, a Blink floodlight camera at clearance, and a 2K video doorbell with Sync Module. Every price was checked on the retailer’s own product page on November 11, 2026.
Read MoreWyze has launched the $99.98 Lever Lock, a fingerprint smart lock built for single-bore doors like garage entries, side doors, and home offices. The fingerprint reader sits in the lever handle for sub-half-second unlocking, with built-in Wi-Fi, no hub or subscription, and up to 12 months of battery life. We cover the five unlock methods, Alexa and Google Home support, and the one notable gap: no Matter.
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