While I waited for Ikea to figure out what was up, I tried some more creative troubleshooting in my home. The only (admittedly odd) fix I found was to force Apple Home not to use my main Home Hub, an ...

It’s been a long time coming but we now finally have a Matter smart security by way of the Aqara Camera Hub G350, which has just gone on sale. The G350, first announced back in January at CES 2026, ...

Rather than being a plug-and-play solution for manufacturers — make a Matter device, and it will just work with any platform ...

Smart home company Aqara has launched what it says is the first camera certified for Matter, the open source standard that ...

IKEA’s got a funky new Matter-compatible lamp. The new Varmblixt is a donut-shaped, connected LED accent light that can be controlled with an included remote or any smart home setup that includes a ...

Announced in November, IKEA's budget-priced smart light bulbs have been released in the US. Pricing starts at $6 per bulb.

The first Matter-compatible smart home camera is here to fix the pain in the ass that is smart home camera compatibility.

In the rapidly expanding world of smart homes, the spotlight has long shone on convenience, connectivity, and compatibility. But as major ecosystems like Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Apple HomeKit ...

From its inception, Matter promised to take the disparate walled gardens of smart home technology and unite them under a single protocol. Its purpose was to allow different ecosystems to interact with ...

Copilot.cx is an IoT customer experience SaaS company that just introduced Copilot Star. Star is a framework that unifies different smart home platforms for users. The system is designed for smart ...