One of the major pain points of the modern smart home is its digital nature. Whether it’s controlling your smart lights, robot vacuum, smart lock, or thermostat, there’s a good chance you’re using a ...

Automation should run your home, not your index finger.

After the ecstasy, the laundry.

The tiny Flic Button lets you control a near-endless number of smart devices—with or without one of Flic’s hubs. If you’re like me—or most TechHive readers—you’ve smartened up as much of your home as ...

If there ever were a case for open sourcing the code, it’s this one. It’s super hard to believe there is valuable IP behind a button. Would be trivial to make these buttons interface with IFTT, though ...

Known for smart air purifiers, Airversa now adds a sleek new AQliQ Smart Button controller accessory that operates exclusively through Home over Thread networking, lacking support for the Matter smart ...

IKEA’s smart home tech gets a lot of the basics – including price – right, but Matter connectivity issues are a downer on the whole experience, including some problems with the newfound button ...

This is one of a number of reasons why I have no intention of adopting smart-home hardware until it stops being proprietary and there's a universal standard that lets me keep using it even if the ...