It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Home Assistant, which gives the closest thing to the interconnected smart home marketing teams promised me. But the consortium behind Matter also promised things, ...

To give Android users more control over their smart home devices, Home Assistant is getting support for Device Control. This Android feature is now available in the panel view of the Home Assistant ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...

Matter continues to gain momentum, and now that you can add Matter-enabled devices to Google Home, it’s finding its way into more households than ever before. Once synced, your non-Google devices with ...

The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing ...

Arlo is easily one of the best smart home camera makers on the planet and one of the best features of its cameras is how they can be used when linked up to the Google smart home ecosystem. Namely, via ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Google has been pushing Gemini into every corner of its ecosystem this year, and now it’s coming for smart speakers and displays.

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A new device setup workflow is rolling out in Google Home. You can now search for apps and devices to add by name from inside Google Home. We first previewed this update late last year, and it’s now ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Despite being one of the most transformative technologies of the last decade, the ultimate smart home has remained but a dream for most ...