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Amazon Patent Points To An Always-Recording Alexa Voice Assistant

Amazon Alexa can now be found in millions of homes around the world, and while it may always be listening, it’s not always recording. In fact, Amazon has state...

Control4 Smart Home OS 3 Released; Promises 1,000+ New Features, Greater Personalisation

Whether it’s Amazon, Apple or Google, the tech giants from Silicon Valley are set on uprooting the smart home industry that we’ve become accustomed to. That me...

Faradite Launches Custom Engraving Service

Faradite's new engraving service takes the ergonomic, attractive and intuitive family of TAP-5 switches to a new level of personalisation letting installe...

tado° Adds HomeKit Support, Full Automation To Smart AC Control V3+

tado° is gradually going through its product line-up and upgrading it to be V3+ compatible, and now the company is announcing its new Smart AC Control V3+. Thi...

Ring’s Doorbells & Cameras Could Soon Support Apple HomeKit

Ring could finally support Apple HomeKit later this year, meaning iPhone, iPad, Mac and HomePod users will gain native control of Ring’s line-up of doorbells a...

Sonos To Roll Out Google Assistant Support Next Week

Google Assistant is finally coming to Sonos devices after more than a year of waiting, as the company has confirmed that it will begin the roll out to Sonos On...

SnapAV Acquires Control4 As The Smart Home Market Faces Further Consolidation

SnapAV is staying true to its name and reputation as being the acquisition master of the custom installation market, and now it’s snapping up yet another compa...

Crestron Plans API Update For Nest Devices After Works With Nest Ends

Following Control4’s confirmation that it will be fully embracing the new Works With Google Assistant program after the shuttering of Works With Nest, Crestron...

Control4 Confirms Support For Works With Google Assistant Following Works With Nest Demise

Yesterday, Google announced the end of the Works With Nest program, and that effects quite a number of smart home manufacturers. One such manufacturer set to b...

Google Harmonises Smart Home Unit Under Nest Brand, Ditches Works With Nest

Nest may have once been a company independent of Google’s control under Alphabet, but now the two firms are finally singing from the same song sheet. The two h...