The Universal Remote primarily works with first-party smart home devices such as the SwitchBot LED Strip Light. It can, however, control third-party hardware thanks to its support of the Matter ...

Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. SwitchBot’s new screen ...

Flic's latest smart home button adds ... can act as a standard light switch, but when you’re moving around it can do any number of things. Maybe you’ll have it control a smart speaker, turn ...

It’s the light switch, evolved ... All this talk of control illustrates that today’s smart home still largely depends on remote control. While technologies such as RF sensing are making ...

(Another option, not specific to the Apple Watch, is to invite someone outside your house to be a Resident in the Home app while they're visiting. That allows them to control most of your smart ...

The concept of smart home ... switch, a smart switch can stop or start the flow of electricity to a connected appliance via its physical buttons. What differentiates it is that this control ...

you can instead control your smart home devices from this central point in your home. Connecting over WI-Fi, it replaces a traditional light switch, and can act as a Zigbee hub and Matter Bridge.

and wire up and mount the new Lutron smart switch. Because I was installing the switch in a three-way lighting circuit in my home office, I needed to use the Lutron Pico remote as the second ...

It should be able to control pretty much any AV device you own, as well as a few smart-home ... remotes to switch inputs and control multiple components simultaneously, a universal remote is ...

including the dimmer switch on the wall, Lutron's Pico remote control, the Lutron app, or your voice using various smart home assistants. With the app, you can set up scenes to adjust lights ...