The most overlooked part of your smart home setup is the thing that controls it all — the smart home hub.

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Smart products are everywhere you look these days. Wander the aisles of any brick-and-mortar (or online) retailer and you’ll probably see numerous smart devices designed to make living your best life ...

Getting into smart home technology doesn't have to be complicated. All sorts of gear can smoothly slot right into uses ...

Attention Apple users! Aqara has just upgraded its Panel Hub S1 Plus with Siri, making it the first wall-mounted hub to come ...

It’s official: The Google Home Hub, a smart speaker with a screen, is here, and it enters into a smart display market that is getting very crowded lately. Everyone seems to want to sell you a screen ...

In the beginning -- before Alexa took the smart home by storm, before tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple became the power triumvirate in the market, and even before most people had heard of ...

Aqara’s Smart Lock U100 is a deadbolt style smart home lock that doesn’t break the bank. With this year’s Black Friday ...

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Editors' note (April 20, 2016):Due to ongoing issues with performance and reliability, SmartThings' hub no longer controls the CNET Smart Home. Check out this post for more details. Yep, we bought a ...

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When life gets chaotic, it can be convenient to have all your smart home devices operating on the same wavelength. Achieving this sort of harmony sometimes requires a hub to consolidate the myriad ...