Smart home gear is getting more common, but the words used to talk about it can get confusing. You might see things like Matter, Thread, or Zigbee on boxes or in setup menus and wonder what they mean.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Everything you need to know to get your Thread-powered smart plug, light bulb, lock, or motion sensor set up the ...

Smart home devices automate many of our daily tasks and make it easy to check in on our home from anywhere in the world. Still, most smart home devices are only compatible with other products made by ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With 100 million Matter-enabled Echos and the fourth-gen smart speaker as a Thread border router, it should now ...

Talking about the speed of an IoT network, latency is what matters, not throughput. We see the delay between a button press and a light turning on, not how much data gets passed around. Click to ...

Yeah, my Threads network has been rock solid, even with the early, buggy nanoleaf firmware on their smart bulbs. Most of my Matter devices are MoT, barring a Smart Hub 2 and a nanoleaf holiday light ...