One of the top annoyances of early smart plugs was their bulk and overall ugliness. It was hard to get excited about automating a lamp when it meant plugging a clunky, unattractive gadget into your ...

The Wemo Smart Plug with Thread is both simple and advanced, offering home automation with mesh networking. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac Insert the Wemo Smart Plug with Thread into any wall socket and ...

Just a few years ago, the Consumer Electronics Show was flooded with smart home devices and accessories. From smart plugs to motion sensors to outlets, a wide range of companies took turns announcing ...

With Wemo you no longer have to change your Smart Home devices if you switch between Alexa, Google or HomeKit platforms. Wemo is one platform we haven't had the chance to look at but recently I ...

If you have any Wemo smart devices in your home, you should start planning an upgrade -- because you only have about six months left to use them. In an email to users today, Wemo announced that it was ...

Like many modern smart home gadgets, Belkin’s Wemo brand of smart plugs has a tendency to phone home every time you turn on a lamp. [Gigawatts] wasn’t having it, so they figured out how to flash the ...

The evolution of the smart home doesn’t always mean a new network for devices to connect or a brand-new smart speaker with a new microphone array. Sometimes evolutions come in the form of ...

A firmware update to the Wemo Smart Plug makes the product the first of its kind to offer Apple HomeKit software authentication. Wemo said that an update to Wemo Mini Smart Plug is being rolled out to ...

Belkin-owned Wemo already makes some of our favorite smart switches (we were quite impressed with Wemo’s recent three-way smart switch), and now the budget-minded smart-home manufacturer is unveiling ...

Wemo’s new smart plug is thankfully much smaller, but its price tag is high vs. the market. Wemo’s long-established smart plug has gone on a diet. The new Wemo Wi-Fi Smart Plug has the same features ...