Because nothing beats a physical button.

Most off-the-shelf smart buttons use tiny surface-mounted tactile switches. They are hollow, plasticky, and lack the mechanical satisfaction of a real interaction that a switch typically provides you ...

Whenever my family goes out of town, we have a dog sitter come by to check on our dogs. One challenge I always have is showing guests how to use our smart home. For our Level Lock Pro, I find it ...

A Samsung Smart Things smart button - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images Smart home technology is constantly advancing, giving us all more ways to make our daily lives easier. Whether you're ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. From map views and smart TVs to smart buttons and generative AI, controlling your smart home is getting simpler ...

Second-generation Flic smart home buttons now have HomeKit compatibility, along with multi-color LEDs to indicate the status of the device they control. The original Flic buttons from Shortcut Labs ...

While not all appliances can be controlled from your devices, the SwitchBot Smart Switch Button Pusher allows you to do so. By including Matter support, you can control them via HomeKit. Smart home ...

Pebblebee Stone is a smart button and item tracker, but it can also be used to control multiple smart devices with the press of a single button. Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over ...

This broadly compatible button and hub system can put a smart home at your fingertips, but programming isn’t always quick and easy. Living in a smart home might let you control everything from a phone ...

The Flic 2 smart buttons were launched via a successful Kickstarter campaign last year and now the developers of the Flic range of smart home buttons have this week announced Apple HomeKit support as ...

If one smart button is great, two must be phenomenal, right? Well, we’ll need to wait until we can lay hands on one, but Flic is now taking discounted pre-orders on its all-new two-button Flic Duo ...

Put flexible controls for your Hue system within easy reach, anywhere. The Philips Hue Smart Button is an add-on button that controls your Philips Hue lights. That’s really it, and in theory it couldn ...