We've already written about Power over Ethernet (PoE) at great length here on XDA, but it's worth hammering home just how amazing this technology is for creating a quieter, cleaner, and smarter home ...

Could your smart home be behind your Wi-Fi trouble? Connected gadgets can affect a network for reasons that have little to do ...

Dhruv Bhutani has covered the Android ecosystem since 2010, with a focus on smartphones, connected devices, and home networking. His reporting is informed by hands-on experience reviewing hundreds of ...

Samir Makwana is a technology journalist and editor from India since past 18 years and his work appears on MakeUseOf, HowToGeek, GSMArena, BGR, GuidingTech, The Inquisitr, TechInAsia, TechWiser, and ...

Which devices to make your home a smart home are best? Nine out of 10 adults in the U.S. are connected to the internet and more than half own a tablet computer. All you need to get started with making ...

Build a custom Matter smart home display to control devices directly without a central hub. This guide uses an ESP32C6 to ...

The new TR-517 standard combines Broadband Forum’s USP with Matter to give service providers and router makers a single API to monitor and manage all smart devices in the home.

To find the best smart hubs available, we researched critic reviews and tested the top models ourselves to evaluate usability ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...