Eight Sleep’s smart beds went haywire during the Amazon cloud outage. It rolled out an offline mode two days later.

Just like a home made from bricks and mortar, laying a solid foundation for your smart home will reward you in the long run. That’s why I decided that my smart home would not be reliant on the cloud ...

The Neato cloud server needed to keep the shuttered company’s robot vacuum cleaners running is being closed down three ...

Home Assistant also lets me claw back local control for many of my smart home devices that previously needed the cloud. Some ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. As someone who remembers a time before the internet, I still have a natural mistrust of anything that needs to be online to function. This is ...

Bose will soon no longer offer important features of its SoundTouch speakers and soundbars. Cloud-based functions and the app will be discontinued.

Google will now back up Thread credentials stored on your Android phone or tablet. This will make it easier to add new Thread-enabled smart home devices to your Thread network at home. Your Thread ...

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition represents a significant step forward in smart home automation, focusing on local voice control as an alternative to cloud-based systems. This open source ...

As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...

The new AI-powered capabilities primarily focus on a smart home assistant that can understand and use natural language, as well as comprehend, generate, and summarize descriptions of events within and ...