The promise of the smart home largely hinges on accurate, speedy presence detection. That's to say, our home needs to know when there are people in it and where they are, as quickly as possible, so ...

My Google Nest Hub is one of my favorite pieces of smart home tech, nestled in my kitchen and always ready to receive instructions. While we're a split 50/50 Alexa and Google household, I've always ...

This all-purpose presence sensor is a master at monitoring indoor activity and linking it to smart home features you already use. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and ...

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This article is sponsored by Aqara. Product choices and opinions expressed are from the sponsor and do not reflect the views of Android Police editorial staff. When it comes to smart home automation, ...

When I'm creating automations in Home Assistant, I always strive to make them work as well as possible. For a long time, however, I was trying to achieve perfection with my presence-based automations.

Aqara‘s new FP1E sensor uses advanced millimeter wave (mmWave) technology to detect even the slightest human movements. So it offers precise presence detection for various home automation scenarios, ...

The $50 sensor runs on two coin cell batteries so you don’t need a nearby power source for installation. The $50 sensor runs on two coin cell batteries so you don’t need a nearby power source for ...