The days of having to get up from your sofa to access appliances are long gone. You can control your heating, lighting and even washing machine from an app on your smartphone with the right products.

You can automate your blinds and window coverings on any budget, from retrofit devices to gorgeous custom window shades. Our experts have found the best smart blinds to consider for your home. John ...

Three years ago we heard about SwitchBot Curtain, a system that allows users to open and close their curtains either on a programmed schedule or by remote control. Well, the SwitchBot company is now ...

One of the first smart device products we tested at GearBrain many years ago was smart blinds and shades. Many of them were ...

Blinds Direct supplies roller blinds with a choice between manual chain controller or remote control – with the latter providing the choice between using a remote control or the Home Kit smart app. In ...

For years, our mornings and evenings started with the same frustrating routine: battling with our old horizontal blinds. We ...

IKEA's smart blinds aren't unfurling on schedule, with the affordable remote-controlled window treatment running into a firmware hold-up. The Swedish retailer sent smart home fans into a frenzy ...

I was dredging my brain for interesting topics to cover and this vertical blind hack popped into my head. The page isn’t the prettiest, but it’s the hack that counts. The mechanism is constructed from ...