My house is Alexa-enhanced, with Amazon Echos, Echo Dots, and an Echo Tap scattered throughout. When I saw the second-generation Echo redesign for the first time, I was pretty underwhelmed by its ...

An update is coming this year to allow certain Philips Hue bulbs to connect over Zigbee and Matter over Thread simultaneously.

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Lighting-control manufacturer Lutron Electronics announced a new remote control for smart light bulbs Friday, offering initial support for Cree and GE Link LED bulbs equipped with ZigBee radios.

Cree’s Connected Soft White LED light bulb isn’t the prettiest lighting fixture, and it can’t change colors like some other LED bulbs, but it’s smart and it’s inexpensive to acquire and operate. Cree ...

There are tons of smart LED light bulbs to choose from nowadays -- and they come in an array styles and specs to suit any smart home. Most of them connect over a local Wi-Fi network, your phone's ...

Philips Hue and other smart bulbs based on the Zigbee standard could soon act as motion sensors without the need for any additional hardware. This would mean they could automatically switch on when ...

Chris is the former Editor of Pocket-lint. He has been a technology journalist since 2008 and has covered the rise of Android and reviewed just about every important device along the way. Chris lives ...

Who needs a smart home hub you can snag cheap Wi-Fi smart bulbs that connect directly to your wireless router? Sounds like a bargain. Until it isn’t. Sengled users learned that lesson the hard way as ...

It was back in September last year that Signify used IFA 2025 to announce that all new Hue bulbs going forward would support Matter over Thread, meaning you could add them to a Thread border router - ...

When Jason Cipriani and I interviewed Tobin Richardson, president of the Zigbee Alliance, last week about the Alliance's involvement in NASA JPL's Mars 2020 mission, I didn't think I would be applying ...