Richard Lee

I run a Home Assistant setup with 47 Zigbee devices across a 1,800 sq ft apartment, and I have spent the last 60 days swapping in ten of the most talked-about best zigbee smart plugs to see which ones actually deliver. I paired each one to a SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB coordinator running ZHA, cycled […]

I spent the last 90 days swapping smart dimmers into every room of my 1,800-square-foot home, switching bulbs between brands, dimming them down to 5% for movie nights, and watching which ones held up without flicker, buzz, or disconnects. If you have ever installed a smart switch only to watch your LEDs strobe at low

I have spent the last three months swapping smart wall switches, fan receivers, and hubs across three rooms of my own house and a friend’s rental apartment, all in the name of finding the best smart ceiling fan controllers you can buy in . The short version: there is no single winner for every home,

After spending six weeks stress-testing ten Thread Border Routers across a 1,900-square-foot house, a 600-square-foot apartment, and a Home Assistant server in a basement closet, our team landed on a clear shortlist. If you are hunting for the best Thread Border Router for smart home use in , the answer is no longer “buy whatever

I’ve spent the last three months running the best robot vacuums with self-cleaning mops through daily cleaning cycles in a 1,400-square-foot apartment with two shedding dogs, hardwood throughout, and a stubborn tile kitchen. My team and I pushed each unit on Cheerios, coffee grounds, syrup, fine dust, and long pet hair, then watched the docks

I have spent more hours than I care to admit crawling through attics, fishing Cat6 through soffits, and rebooting NVRs that mysteriously dropped offline at 2 a.m. After testing eight wired PoE security camera setups in real homes over the past year, I can tell you this: if your Wi-Fi cameras keep missing the moment

Spending 30 nights in our travel trailer over the past two years taught me one thing fast: a regular living-room TV does not belong in an RV. Vibrations shake circuits loose, the 12V battery demands a purpose-built panel, and that 65-inch TV you love at home does not fit between the cabinets. After swapping three

If you have ever watched a camera pan across a football pitch and seen the pitch turn into a smear, you already know why picking the best OLED TV for sports matters. I have spent the last three months swapping panels in and out of my living room, running Premier League, NFL, F1, and rugby

I spent six weeks cycling through eight native 144Hz TVs in my living room lab, hooking each one up to an RTX 4080 gaming PC, a PS5, and an Xbox Series X. My goal was simple: find the best TVs with 144Hz refresh rates that actually deliver on the marketing. Some blew past my expectations.

I’ve spent the last three months running PS5, Xbox Series X, and an RTX 5080 PC into more than a dozen screens, and the single biggest difference between a great setup and a constant cable-swapping mess is whether the TV has four full-bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports. The best TVs with four HDMI 2.1 ports let