Are smart homes about to break free from smart phones?

Smart home technology is supposed to be easy to use – once your devices have been set up and configured. But each manufacturer tends to supply their own app for configuration and management.

Now that smart home manufacturers are working together using the Matter interoperability standard, some of these annoyances should go away. However, in most homes there still tends to be one smartphone that is used for the majority of configuration. Why is that?

First, most …

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