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All the top features from our smart home week in association with Ring

A whole week of smart home articles for you to peruse

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

in association with Ring

This lasy week has been Stuff’s smart home week in association with Ring. Feeling overwhelmed by unnecessarily complicated tech and smart apps? Let us simplify things with the best products, platforms and broadband advice for joining the dots of your connected abode.

Whether that’s asking Alexa who’s at the door, turning the lights down with Siri or using Hey Google to play music in all your rooms, there will be something for you.

Whether you’re looking for a garden watchdog, some programmable buttons, or a fix for your home’s infuriating internet blackspots, there’s brilliant smart tech that can help you out.

We’ve got a huge stack of smart home-themed articles to get you inspired and get you thinking about what’s best for your home – and even though the week is over you can still check them out below.

We’ll bring you the latest smart home buying guides plus advice around the latest gear to try – whichever smart ecosystem you’re using currently, whether that’s Apple, Google or Amazon-centric or simply using standalone products.

Our latest smart home week features in association with Ring

The three key ecosystems

Amazon Alexa

The undisputed queen of the smart home, Alexa shows no sign of relinquishing her throne – especially as she can now be found in a connected toilet. There are plenty of ways Alexa-enabled tech can make your world run more smoothly.

Google Assistant

So much more than a voice assistant for your smartphone, Google Assistant powers many of the latest and greatest gadgets, and if that’s not enough its Stuff award-winning smart display and whizzy Wi-Fi mesh network could be the connected cherry on top.

Apple Home

Apple wants to make your home work without opening countless apps. It also claims to place great importance on your privacy and demands devices on its platform adhere to greater levels of encryption. In fact, the only person crashing this house party is Siri.

Also don’t forget to check out our list of the best smart home devices.

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About

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

Areas of expertise

Computing, mobile, audio, smart home