Amazon's $180 Echo Hub review: fast and interactive widgets, supports Zigbee, Thread, and Matter, but a laggy touchscreen and some features need a subscription
Amazon's new control panel makes using an Alexa-powered smart home as easy as flipping a light switch (only better, trust me).
Wyze says ~13,000 customers could briefly see others' camera feeds, after a similar issue in 2023; Wyze blames glitches in rebooting systems after an AWS outage
https://www.theverge.com/... The security issue is being blamed on “a third-party caching library,” but the company acknowledges that it let customers down @cassidy@mastodon.blaed...
Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024's main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift
Last year, you couldn't mention CES without bringing up Matter. It was a pivotal year for the smart home standard …
How Matter broke its promise of an easier smart home experience: the standard suffers from poor implementation, significant backpedaling, and glacial progress
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge :
Matter's biggest problem is that companies can't agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks
The Thread protocol offers a robust mesh network designed to solve many of the smart home's biggest problems.
An overview of the adoption of Matter, the new open-source smart home interoperability standard, across the devices and controllers on display at CES 2023
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge : Tweets: @jp2e Tweets: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / @jp2e : With dozens of new product announcements and plenty of support from all the smart hom...
Hands-on with Matter devices at an official launch event; Matter has a long way to go before it delivers on a promise of an interoperable and simple smart home
At the official launch event for Matter this week, I saw a lot of exciting things: a Google Nest Hub controlling an Eve Energy smart plug …
Ikea Dirigera review: the Matter-ready smart home hub is easy to use and works well, but is expensive, lacks a migration tool from Trådfri, and is simplistic
Thomas Ricker / The Verge : Tweets: @jp2e Tweets: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / @jp2e : Ikea's new smart home is here. Read @trixxy's exclusive review of the Dirigera hub, which thank...
Apple announces an Apple TV 4K with A15, HDR10+ support, and an updated Siri Remote with USB-C, starting at $129 for preorder now and shipping on November 4
here's how to preorder it David Satin / The Streamable : Apple Unveils New Generation of Apple TV 4K Devices Available Now for Preorder Tweets: Neil Cybart / @neilcybart : Apple's ...
The Connectivity Standards Alliance launches the Matter 1.0 smart home standard and its certification program; Matter devices may be sold as soon as this month
The smart home standard is open for certification at last. We could see Matter devices in our homes as soon as this month.
A Q&A with Tony Fadell on his new book, Google's “culture of perks”, why he says “fuck the metaverse”, creating and selling the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, and more
Wyze had been aware of several remote access vulnerabilities in its home security cameras for months and years without fixing them, despite Bitdefender warnings
Wyze knew hackers could remotely access your camera for three years and said nothing Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Wyze Left Security Cameras Open to Hacking for Three Years Corbin ...