Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

It’s very early days for Apple’s HomeKit technology, but if you’re ready to take the plunge, Insteon’s Smart Hub Pro and its product family falls just short of the competing solution from Lutron. The ...

Users of Insteon’s connected home automation products will now be able to control their Sonos speakers directly from Insteon hardware and the company’s iOS app. The feature comes thanks to a new ...

Insteon’s Connected Kit is a very inexpensive, but its weak camera and clumsy installation procedures (in some areas, but not others) drag down our opinion of the system as a whole. For simple, yet ...

Long-time readers may recollect my past series of posts covering the testing and more general ongoing use of SmartLabs’ (also known by its Smarthome online retail brand) Insteon home automation ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This feels like a good time for a reflection on the state of the smart home. Is it all over? Or is this cloud ...

It would appear that, sometimes, miracles happen. A few days ago, an update graced the website of Insteon, a company whose abrupt shuttering we covered in detail two months ago. An entity described as ...

As suddenly as it disappeared, Insteon has returned. The smart home company’s services started coming back to life this week, and on Thursday, Insteon announced that a group of customers had purchased ...

Following the report yesterday that smart home company Insteon’s servers had mysteriously fired up overnight, there is good news: Insteon is back, and it was resurrected by its customers. This message ...