Smart Home How-Tos

Amazon Alexa's Drop-In feature, which lets you view a feed from someone's Echo Show unannounced, is a bit creepy. Here's how to disable it.

Take the leap and give this feature a try.

You can connect the Amazon Echo smart speaker to the Logitech Harmony Elite universal remote. Here's how to make your home theater controlled by your voice.

You no longer have to say "Alexa" before every voice command to Amazon's smart speaker.

Turn your home's layout into a Doom map using a Roomba 980 and this clever hack.

Here's how to make Alexa your personal email assistant.

An update to Google Assistant encourages more polite manners with a Pretty Please feature. And kids can now talk to Santa.

You can use your voice to control your smart Philips Hue lights if you connect it to your Amazon Echo. Here's how.

Here's how to make Skype calls with Alexa.

Here's how to start your Alexa routines with the push of a button.