The best early Cyber Monday deals on smart home tech
‘Tis the season to find some serious bargains on smart home gear. With Black Friday in the rearview mirror and Cyber Monday coming up fast, there’s still time to nab deals on smart lighting, smart locks, robot vacuums, security cameras, and smart speakers, to name just a few.
With the new smart home standard Matter on the horizon, it’s worth discerning your bargain shopping if you plan to take advantage of the new interoperability protocol. (Which means if you want all your devices to work with all the different smart home platforms out of the box). So, we’ve mainly highlighted deals on gadgets that will work with Matter or, if not, then gadgets that work with all the major platforms.
Some device categories are not yet on the Matter bandwagon, including cameras and robot vacuums. We’re not going to tell you to wait — if you need them, now is definitely the time to buy them, as there are seriously good deals to be had.
Matter is a new smart home standard that will make it easier for your gadgets to work with each other and any platform you want to control them with — from Amazon Alexa and Google Home to Apple Home and Samsung SmartThings.
Matter devices will need a Matter controller, and those that use Thread — a protocol Matter runs on — will need a Thread border router. Black Friday is the perfect time to pick up one of the many gadgets that will have this functionality built-in for a bargain.
‘Tis the season to find some serious bargains on smart home gear. With Black Friday in the rearview mirror and Cyber Monday coming up fast, there’s still time to nab deals on smart lighting, smart locks, robot vacuums, security cameras, and smart speakers, to name just a few. With the…
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