Michael Brown

If you enjoy illuminating your home with decorative lighting for the holidays, but dread climbing up and down a ladder and dealing with tangled strings of lights several times a year, take a look at the latest entry in Jasco’s Enbrighten line of smart lighting products: Eternity Lights. Enbrighten Eternity Lights are permanently mounted in your home’s eaves, on a pergola, balcony, or other outdoor structure and then connected to your home’s Wi-Fi network. You’ll need to have a weatherized outdo…

Yale, one of the oldest lock manufacturers in the world, has announced an all-new retrofit smart lock, the Yale Approach Lock with Wi-Fi. Affordably priced at $129.99, the lock is also available bundled with Yale’s exterior keypad for $179.99. The primary appeal of installing a retrofit smart lock is that it doesn’t require the wholesale replacement of your existing lock. The smart component fits over the interior element of the deadbolt that’s already in place. This news story is part of Tech…

This low-priced smart deadbolt offers five options for entry: your fingerprint, a PIN, an NFC card, a physical key, or its mobile app.

Ring brings its 3D motion detection and Bird’s Eye View features to its most powerful battery-powered video doorbell, and it expects to fetch a pretty price for it.

This well-designed accessory will be particularly attractive to smart home enthusiasts with lots of devices to control. Ring Alarm users will find it compelling, too.

If you have ceiling fans with integrated lights, you’ll want to consider adding TP-Link’s new Kasa Smart KS240 to your smart home system. This in-wall controller can not only adjust the fan’s speed, but it can also dim its integrated lights, thanks to independent vertical touch-sensitive sliders. But you won’t need to get out of your chair to touch those sliders if you don’t want to. The device connects to Wi-Fi and is compatible with the Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and Google Home smart hom…

Ring has a new flagship in its consumer video doorbell line: The Ring Battery Doorbell Pro delivers the company’s vaunted radar-based 3D motion detection to homes that don’t already have low-voltage wiring in their walls. Ring’s Birds Eye View technology provides an aerial perspective that allows the homeowner to track the path a visitor took to their door, and it can be programmed so that alerts are sent only when motion is detected in a precisely mapped range. In our evaluations of other rada…

Smart deadbolts are supremely convenient, but they can also be expensive and difficult to install. Retrofit smart locks like the new Abode Lock, from smart home system developer Abode Systems, address both of those drawbacks by replacing the dumb components of your existing lock and leaving most of the existing hardware in place. This news story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart locks. The Abode Lock is being offered at a launch-discount price of $129.99 for a limited t…

Skylight has announced a third version of its Wi-Fi-connected touchscreen smart calendars, which are designed to keep track of the entire family’s activities. The 27-inch Skylight Calendar Max joins the company’s existing 10- and 15-inch (diagonal) interactive displays. Like its smaller stablemates, the Skylight Calendar Max can keep track of appointments, to-do lists, chore charts, meal planning, shopping lists, and more. Each family member can be assigned a color to make it easier for everyon…

This addition to Ring Alarm and Ring Alarm Pro security systems alerts you to water leaks, giving you a chance to act before you need high-cost home repairs.