Q: I’ve been thinking about upgrading my house to a smart home. What smart features should I be looking for as I shop around? A: Smart homes are becoming more and more popular — and with good reason.

Understanding the smart home ecosystem, with insights on the IoT future and home automation trends shaping connected, ...

It's not unusual to see fluctuation in the housing market, and home values are good indicators of the health of an economy. To help you understand what is going on and what we expect to happen in the ...

Houses today can be outfitted so that the owner can turn off the stove, receive text alerts when the doorbell rings, control the thermostat and time his washing machine’s next cycle from across the ...

Home automation is huge right now in consumer electronics, but despite the wide availability of products on the market, hackers and makers are still spinning up their own solutions. It could be ...

One thing that I've noticed since getting heavily into home lab experimentation is that my home electricity bills are trending upward. On any given day, I could have several servers running, plus ...

Splitero reports that automated valuation models (AVMs) quickly estimate property values using data, offering speed and affordability over traditional appraisals.

From flicking a light switch to opening your garage door with a remote control, our homes have been automated for decades. The concept goes as far back as the 1934 World’s Fair in Chicago where the ...

MyQ is a steaming pile of dog turd. They used to have google home integration and removed it about 2 years or so ago. You can still fake it with IFTT, but its clunky. Their app is covered with ads. I ...