A bulging washing machine hose is an emergency home problem that you must address immediately. It may burst next year, next week or right now. But it will fail and it won’t just leak — it will gush.

There’s a lot you can do to design a resilient smart home, from choosing an open ecosystem like Home Assistant to avoiding devices that depend on the cloud to work. But sometimes, things just don’t go ...

When selling your home, it’s natural to want to present the property in the most favorable light possible. However, don’t let this zest for perfection lead to concealing potential problems with the ...

I’m a relatively early adopter of smart home products. While I didn’t dive in during the X.10 days, I’ve been using a variety of smart home devices for well over a decade now, and jumped in on HomeKit ...

I've dealt with every kind of smart home and home security problem. Here are the steps that get things working. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and security ...

“Water loves to tell on itself,” Scott Johnson, president of the American Society of Home Inspectors, said in a recent interview with CR. Ain’t that the truth. Your nose never lies. Johnson says musty ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Terri Williams is a journalist covering housing trends. As the weather turns cooler, you may be tempted to focus on the latest ...

PCWorld highlights how Ikea’s new Matter-enabled devices like the Bilresa smart button are experiencing widespread connectivity issues, reflecting broader smart home problems. These connection ...

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