I’ve been playing around with various LED smart lights for over a decade. The first set of household bulb replacements that I really got into was a Philips Hue kit I bought in 2012. It was pretty cool ...

If you're thinking about upgrading your lighting but are unsure of whether to get smart bulbs or a smart switch, it depends ...

I'm new to the smart light revolution, and I'm not turning back. Let me explain. I lived in my last home for 17 years, and while it needed upgrades throughout, the lights were the least of my worries.

The Meross Smart WiFi LED Bulb integrates almost any lamp or light fixture into a HomeKit smart home. It can be controlled with an iPhone, and offers color changing and dimming. I added a pair to my ...

For whatever reason, bulbs are the HomeKit device I have the most trouble with (i.e., no response error). The Aqara LED Bulb T2 aims to support Matter over Thread for future-proof compatibility and ...

I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...

It’s almost 2026, which means if you don’t have any smart home devices yet, you’ve fallen behind the curve. Smarter homes ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...

I’ve been working with computers for ages, starting with a multi-year stint in purchasing for a major IBM reseller in New York City before eventually landing at PCMag (back when it was still in print ...

Note that, as prominently mentioned on the packaging, these bulbs are controllable only by the Amazon Echo ecosystem (voice commanded-devices plus smartphone and tablet apps): Note that as with the ...

The LED, or light-emitting diode, is very unlikely to fail, and if it does, it goes out slowly over the years. Instead, it's the other electrical bits in LED bulbs that fail and cut off the bulb's ...