Smart home ecosystems such as Alexa and Apple Home are great for simple smart home control and basic smart home automations. But if you want more powerful control and the ability to integrate with ...

Intercom, assistant, DJ, and dinner bell; all for under $50. Google launched its first virtual assistant powered speaker last Fall, and this year’s they’re making a return with a product that’s not ...

The Google Home Mini (1st-gen) is a small smart speaker that launched in 2017 as an inexpensive internet-connected device that let you talk to Google Assistant to get answers to questions, save task ...

Home Assistant is a free and open-source smart home ecosystem with near-limitless potential. Unlike proprietary systems from Apple, Google, and Amazon, Home Assistant lets you build more complex ...

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that's true, Amazon must be tickled pink right now. The obvious inspiration for last year's Google Home was the Amazon Echo, and it's just as ...