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 ...

The Wemo Smart Plug with Thread is both simple and advanced, offering home automation with mesh networking. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Insert the Wemo Smart Plug with Thread into any wall socket and ...

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The evolution of the smart home doesn’t always mean a new network for devices to connect or a brand-new smart speaker with a new microphone array. Sometimes evolutions come in the form of ...

Home automation is convenient and even kind of fun. And a smart plug is the easiest way to get started. The redesigned Wemo WiFi Smart Plug from Belkin lets you find out if you really want to be able ...

If you have any Wemo smart devices in your home, you should start planning an upgrade -- because you only have about six months left to use them. In an email to users today, Wemo announced that it was ...

Wemo’s new smart plug is thankfully much smaller, but its price tag is high vs. the market. Wemo’s long-established smart plug has gone on a diet. The new Wemo Wi-Fi Smart Plug has the same features ...

A firmware update to the Wemo Smart Plug makes the product the first of its kind to offer Apple HomeKit software authentication. Wemo said that an update to Wemo Mini Smart Plug is being rolled out to ...

I once co-owned a coworking space. The space had doors with magnetic locks, unlocked by a powered relay. My partners and I realized that, if we could switch power to the system on and off, we could ...

Just a few years ago, the Consumer Electronics Show was flooded with smart home devices and accessories. From smart plugs to motion sensors to outlets, a wide range of companies took turns announcing ...

Belkin-owned Wemo already makes some of our favorite smart switches (we were quite impressed with Wemo’s recent three-way smart switch), and now the budget-minded smart-home manufacturer is unveiling ...