Our guide to the 12 best smart plugs for a smarter home aims to help you get started on enhancing your home automation experience. Before we get into our detailed reviews, let’s highlight what to look ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. These misleadingly simple gadgets are some of the most useful smart devices you can have in your home. If you buy ...

Smart plugs can bring new life to older electrical devices by allowing you to control power to lights, printers, and sound bars with ease. Smart plugs are the perfect smart home devices for beginners ...

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It's a small price to pay to make sure you can use a variety of items with your Govee automated app.

The TP-Link Tapo smart plug is one of the first Matter devices. It’s fast and easy to use with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, or SmartThings thanks to the new smart home standard. But when it ...

One of the top annoyances of early smart plugs was their bulk and overall ugliness. It was hard to get excited about automating a lamp when it meant plugging a clunky, unattractive gadget into your ...

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The Meross Matter Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini makes for an affordable Matter-compliant smart plug, but offers only the bare minimum of features. Compact and Matter-compatible as advertised, the Meross ...

This smart plug works much better with Apple HomeKit than Meross’s own app, but the latter is required for several important functions. In my recent review, I found Meross’ outdoor Wi-Fi smart plug to ...

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