Sentences with phrase «smart home gear»

For now, these bulbs are standalone products that you'll use separately from any other smart home gear you might own.

Between smart home gear and digital assistants, it's looking like consumer technology's future may lie in voice controls — but one leader in the field might be taking a step backwards.

Think smart home gear that truly lives up to the name, fitness wearables you can throw in the wash and high - tech cars that nearly drive themselves.

To set the stage, it's interesting to note that about one - quarter of U.S. households now have at least one piece of smart home gear in their possession, according to the study.

About one in four of US households now have at least one piece of smart home gear in their possession.

It's trying to build a more Apple - like ecosystem, with devices ranging from the Gear VR and the DeX dock to the new Samsung Connect app for controlling smart home gear and the Bixby assistant.

Any of us — regardless of what kind of phone we have or what apps we've downloaded — can use the Echo to control the compatible smart home gear in the house.

At this point, you're all set to start playing with smart home gear and controlling it using Siri, but in order for those Siri commands to work when you're away from home, we'll need to bring Apple TV into play.

Florence reports on all the latest Android and smart home gear for PCWorld, Greenbot and TechHive.

The Insteon Hub will act a bridge between its own smart home gear and HomeKit - compatible products from other companies.

Smart smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors are one of the most useful categories of smart home gear on the market, mainly because they offer a clear advantage over «dumb» versions of the same product.

Many smart smoke detectors hook into additional smart home gear and IFTTT, so you can get even more clever by having the lights start flashing if smoke has been detected, for example.

HomePod is great for HomeKit, serving as a payoff for anyone who's been investing in Apple's approved smart home gear, allowing hardware developers to deeply tie their products to Siri.

I've never owned a piece of smart home gear before, so I borrowed an iDevices Socket bulb and a Harmony Hub to test.

It's been a long time coming but Belkin is almost ready to rollout Apple HomeKit support for its WeMo smart home gear.

That means you can do tons of cool things, from the powerful (controlling compatible smart home gear) to the fanciful (ordering a pizza by voice).

To set the stage, it's interesting to note that about 1/4 of US households now have at least one piece of smart home gear in their possession, according to the study.

It's one of HomeKit's marquee draws — install HomeKit - compatible lights, locks, and other smart home gear in your home, and you'll be able to to control all of it using voice commands.

Stay tuned with us all week for more on a bevy of other gadgets, including headphones, wireless chargers, smart home gear, devices with «artificial intelligence,» and of course, the unexpected.

For many people, it should be noted, that smart home gear control is the killer app, letting the Echo act as a universal remote for a growing selection of gadgetry.

Also, Amazon Alexa currently supports a wider range of smart home gear, though Google is closing that gap fast.

That said, having used both the Echo Plus and a Google Home side - by - side, the former does a better job of finding and connecting to smart home gear.

Once you've done that, you're all set — your Apple TV should automatically begin functioning as an overseer of your smart home gear.

Stay tuned, as we expect details of other gadgets, including headphones, wireless chargers, smart home gear, devices with «artificial intelligence,» and of course,

Stay tuned, as we expect details of other gadgets, including headphones, wireless chargers, smart home gear, devices with «artificial intelligence,» and of course, the unexpected.

And we don't want a smart speaker that won't ever be able to control our smart home gear.

The big day has (almost) arrived, bargain hunters across these United States, and just as promised, Amazon is turning Prime Day into an extended 30 - hour discount extravaganza including dirt - cheap items as diverse as tablets, smart home gear, video games, computers, clothes, furniture and groceries.

Last year at its Worldwide Developer Conference, it announced HomeKit, a platform targeted at makers of smart home gear that aims to tie all those devices together and let you operate them through a familiar interface — Siri.

Like SmartThings, Wink supports a vast array of protocols and smart home gear, and even has native support for a few devices that Samsung lacks, such as Kidde products.

It also has a Zigbee interface built - in, letting it work better with some smart home gear.

Amazon Alexa supports the highest number of smart home devices, but the best idea is to check whether the smart home gear you own, or are considering, supports these systems.

As a Contributing Editor for PCMag, John Delaney has been testing and reviewing monitors, TVs, PCs, networking and smart home gear, and other assorted hardware and peripherals for almost 20 years.

We know it'll act as the interface to your smart home gear but we don't know which ecosystems will be supported.

But as a quick overview, you can ask Google's Assistant to do all manner of tasks — with a natural, conversational command, you can get it to play specific music from your streaming service of choice, get an update on your schedule, check the weather, get an overview of a subject from Wikipedia, set reminders and timers, and control all sorts of Google - compatible smart home gear.