Since the Nest Thermostat made it’s smart home debut, there has been a wealth of good smart thermostat options hitting the market for pretty much any platform of your choosing. These devices are great for those with central heating or thermostat controlled ducted air conditioning. But those with stand alone split system air conditioners have been left out in the cold (or heat as the case may be).

While not strictly necessary in an age of voice control and mobile apps, the ability to have a nice, always on dashboard somewhere in the house can be an appealing addition to any smart home. Such a dashboard needs to provide an at-a-glance view of the status of key devices, sensor data, and provide the ability to control aspects of the home conveniently.  

Earlier this year, at the IFA trade show, Philips announced upcoming Apple Homekit support for the Hue accessories. Specifically, the accessories to be included were the Hue Tap Switch, Hue Dimmer Switch, and the Hue Motion Sensor. The support has now come to pass through a firmware update for the Hue Bridge.

After reading up on the various tech coverage of the last couple of weeks, things have settled down somewhat. We've gone through the usual phases of "ZOMG everything is broken!", through "It's bad, but not as bad as we thought" and now we've landed on "OK, we can work with this".

The FingBox, a handy little network security gadget and troubleshooting toolkit for the home. If you've ever wondered how to keep an eye on your network, this new crowdsourced appliance may be of interest.

Video doorbell company Ring has been on a roll with new products announcements this year, and have now jumped into the monitored security market with a new offering that looks set to shake up the market. 

When device makers are unable, or unwilling, to put the effort into the security of consumer networking products, innocent people are left exposed to the very real threat of personal and financial damage. See how D-Link is doing things wrong.

After Apple removed the hardware requirements for HomeKit certification in iOS11, a number of device makers jumped on board with promised HomeKit support for their products. LIFX is the first out of the gate with a firmware update for their capable line of full color smart lights.

With the arrival of iOS11 a number of new features were added to HomeKit. How do these stack up against the promises of WWDC, and what do they look like in practice?

Analysis of U-Verse modem firmware has revealed a slew of major vulnerabilities in what can only be called a security house of horrors for AT&T customers. The exposure is glaring and complete that all AT&T customers need to take action immediately. Read on to see just how bad things are.

Getting an outdoor weather sensor that can provide a truly comprehensive set of data for your connected home has been a challenge. WeatherFlow looks to change all that. 

Philips had quite a lot to announce at IFA2017. Not only are we looking at a bunch of new light models, bundles and starter kits, but ZigBee 3.0 support, expanded HomeKit compatibility, and a new interactive media SDK.

I've had a number of people ask about setting their motion alerts on Ring's Stick Up Cam, so I've put together a quick tutorial on the various settings and optimal set up. As all of Ring's security products use the same app, these tips will apply to those as well.

As the number of connected devices in homes grow, and the paradigm of home computing moves to a more mobile base, Wifi connectivity has become increasingly important to a lot of people. Let's take a look a three of the better options available.

In a case of unbelievably bad security design, researchers at Bitdefender have exposed a range of cheap security cameras in a perfect case study of how to do IoT wrong, and why poor device security is a major problem.

Fing is billed as a 'super-fast network scanner', and that's pretty much what it does, at least originally. Fing itself offers network scanning of the local subnet, device port scanning, and connectivity testing to local or remote addresses.