Dust off your old tablet and turn it into a one-stop control center for all your smart home devices.

If you know what you’re doing, you can turn your Fire tablet into a dedicated smart home hub — making it more straightforward to control smart light bulbs, switches, plugs, thermostats, and more.

Consumer Reports walks you through the tedious but worthwhile process of using Amazon Alexa to control your smart home hub.

How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant You can have nice, automated things without learning how to shout at speakers.

Speaking of conversion, setting up a tablet hub often involves not just software but a little home renovation, such as installing a mount and dedicated power.

Amazon is making it easier to control smart home devices from its Fire tablets, with the new Device Dashboard pulling together all of your connected lights, cameras, and appliances in a more ...

Fortunately for you, if you have an old tablet banging around in a drawer somewhere, you can easily turn it into your smart home hub.

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Matter also makes use of another smart home protocol called Thread: It’s another way to get devices talking, like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Amazon is adding a Device Dashboard to select Fire tablets, allowing users to control their smart-home gadgets with taps instead of voice commands.

Apple's smart home device, featuring AI and FaceTime, could enter the market by March, Bloomberg reported, and could compete with Google and Amazon.