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If you prefer not to have cameras in and around your home, try one of these more private, WIRED-tested security devices.

Smart lighting is one way to control the lights around your home, but there's an even more effective, old-school way to handle lighting a room.

Presence/motion sensors are one of the best ways to make automations feel more natural, but most of them run on batteries and eventually have to be swapped. That’s one of the main reasons I really ...

Sensify is a new technology that can turn Zigbee switches, bulbs, and plugs into sensors with a firmware update. This could be how Philips Hue will bring ambient sensing to its smart lights. Sensify ...

Matter may be the big new thing in the smart home arena, but the old Zigbee protocol still has some tricks up its sleeves, and this one’s pretty cool: The ability to transform Zigbee devices, such as ...

Aside from its various processor, memory, and device capacity improvements, the new Philips Hue Bridge Pro comes with a killer feature: the ability to turn your existing Hue lights into motion sensors ...

Compare the best smart home sensors for your 2026 setup, from basic PIR models to mmWave devices like the 60 GHz Aqara FP2 ...