Dust off your old tablet and turn it into a one-stop control center for all your smart home devices.

If you know what you’re doing, you can turn your Fire tablet into a dedicated smart home hub — making it more straightforward to control smart light bulbs, switches, plugs, thermostats, and more.

Q: Can I use a Fire tablet or an iPad as a smart home display hub? Fire tablets are an excellent choice if you want to get a cheap tablet that can double as your smart home command center.

Fortunately for you, if you have an old tablet banging around in a drawer somewhere, you can easily turn it into your smart home hub.

Instead, the tablet doubles as a smart home hub display with its charging dock. This article explores the Google Pixel Tablet, the Hub Mode, and how to set it up and use it.

Consumer Reports walks you through the tedious but worthwhile process of using Amazon Alexa to control your smart home hub.

Speaking of conversion, setting up a tablet hub often involves not just software but a little home renovation, such as installing a mount and dedicated power.

Apple's recent iPhone changes -- changes Google is also making to its devices -- enable Thread radio frequency support. That ...

How to control your smart home without yelling at a dumb voice assistant You can have nice, automated things without learning how to shout at speakers.

Amazon is making it easier to control smart home devices from its Fire tablets, with the new Device Dashboard pulling together all of your connected lights, cameras, and appliances in a more ...

Consumer Reports walks you the process of creating your own Google smart home, using a Google Assistant smart speaker as the hub of your home.