Looking to add some light to your backyard? Philips Hue has a way for you to do it that is smart and connected. The company is at CES 2019 to show off two new floodlights that can light up any space and a motion sensor that can be used to turn on any of your Philips Hue lights -- inside or out.

At CES 2019, Ring has announced a door view camera that fits in the peephole of most doors, as well as a line of brand-new smart lighting products to further expand its smart home security offerings. All of these new products are now available for purchase or pre-order.

C by GE has always been heavily invested in its partnership with Google and its collaboration is coming to fruition with new "Made-for-Google" smart lights, switches, and other lighting products that enable users to control lighting by voice or app without running instructions through an external smart home hub.

There were tons of smart home devices given as gifts this holiday season, and there's nothing people wanted to do more than plug them in and start using them. Unfortunately, new owners of Philips Hue smart lights were hit by an outage that kept them from being able to enjoy their new connected lights.

It can mount to any surface, and power itself: Senic’s Nuimo Click is the remote control your smart device should have come with. Well designed, it’s ideal for your smart home. But you’ll have to keep your expectations in check and your pocket wide open, as the Click’s features are limited.

Philip’s Hue’s been the top name in smart programmable home lighting for years now, yet the most ornamental of holidays still relies on lame string lights that just don’t work as intelligently as everything else in our lives. There’s no excuse. It’s time we got smart holiday lights.

Ecobee's 2018 Black Friday deals are live. The smart home device maker announced three deals, all effective immediately. Ecobee's smart thermostats and smart wall switch are compatible with smart home voice assistant systems including Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, and Samsung SmartThings.

Philips Hue Play synchronizes lighting with music, video, and games for a great entertaining effect. But it’s early days for this immersive tech, and we had some trouble with getting the parts to sync up seamlessly. Hue Play needs some fine-tuning before we can fully recommend it. Read our review to learn more.

Philips Hue fans can at last enjoy the brilliance of this weatherproof light strip, which offers simple, versatile positioning, a rich selection of 16 million color options, and bright, vibrant illumination. Deck life and holiday home decorating just got a whole lot better.

Leviton has introduced Intellect, a new controls platform for smart home lighting. Intellect is the fifth brand to join Leviton's portfolio, alongside ConTech, Intense, Birchwood, and JCC. Intellect provides dimming options and occupation sensors that turn the lights on automatically when someone is in the room.

Smart home vendor Ecobee is up and running after experiencing a major server and web site outage Thursday, disrupting services across the country to its mobile apps and products with Alexa and SmartThings integration. The outage lasted over two and a half hours, prompting hundreds of complaints online.

The iLUX floodlights let you light up huge parts of your home at once with their 120-lumen bulbs. Each light has 16 million color combinations and can be controlled with the touch of a button. They're perfect for backyard barbecues, holiday decorations, and whatever else you want to use them for.

Sengled has announced a new lineup of smart home bulbs, including an all-in-one motion sensing outdoor security light, a color-changing bulb, and an entry-level smart bulb for newcomers to the smart home world. The company also announced a smart plug, available for purchase in October.

Philips Hue smart lighting and smart switches gained six new members of the Friends of Hue program. Signify, the new name for Philips Lighting, announced the six new global partners at IFA 2018 in Berlin. In addition to two new switch companies added to the gang, four of the companies will add new lighting designs.

Lenovo is debuting a wide range of low-cost to high-end laptops at IFA 2018 but the biggest news for smart home users is the launch of a new "Smart Home Essentials" line of products that will initially include a smart bulb, plug, and a surveillance camera with remote access.

If you've never gotten around to repainting the living room, even though that task has been on your to-do list for years, you may want to try a different approach that doesn't require any paintbrushes or color swatches. Two new Philips Hue lights can project colors directly onto your walls. 

While cheaper smart lighting options abound, few competitors can match Philips Hue’s blend of style, sophistication and simplicity that makes it easy to create the perfect ambience for your home. The White and Color Ambience Kit isn’t new, but with other lighting kits flooding the market, we figured it was a good idea to take a fresh look to see if it still holds up.

Philips has introduced a new range of Hue lights and fixtures that are designed to go all over the home including water-resistant outdoor fixture, new lighting for inside the home, and new bathroom fixtures including a smart mirror with a built-in dimmer.

Installing outdoor LED lighting has been too difficult for too long. Philips Hue has made it easy by making outdoor lighting that’s gorgeous and exciting to use. A combination of style, sophistication and, best of all, simplicity makes Philips Hue Calla an easy pick. Here’s how testing went.

Lighting up your life this Prime Day is a set of deals from Philips Hue, the company behind the popular smart lightbulbs making smart homes around the world just a bit brighter. We've long been fans of the brand's offerings, having first reviewed the company's smart lightbulbs way back in 2013.

Philips Hue has been around for awhile, and are the gold standard for smart lighting. We decided to take a fresh look at a Philips Hue starter kit to see if they're still the best, comparing them to the new contenders in smart home lighting. As it turns out, the Philips Hue still competes.

Smart appliance manufacturer Sengled is continuing the expansion of features and applications to its most popular products, starting by adding color and rhythm features to its Element smart light bulbs.

Signify today announced Philips Hue Sync, a free app that lets you synchronize your Philips Hue smart lighting system with games, videos, and music played on your Windows 10 or macOS Sierra computer. With the element of synchronized lights, you can enjoy a new level of immersion in home entertainment.

Noon Home smart lighting added support for Lifx Wi-Fi-enabled smart light bulbs to its scene customization and control system. The capability of saving an additional 32 custom scenes brings the total number of stored mood light setting combinations to 48. The system has also improved the scene selection menu.

You don’t have to have a professional install smart switches to make your lighting smart. Instead, try the Lutron Caseta Wireless Smart Lighting Dimmer Switch. It helps you take control of your home lighting through an easy-to-use app, though it has no shortage of competitors.

What is a smart switch? These light switches connect to your Wi-Fi network and give you many extra features for controlling your house or office lights. We'll run down how it works and what major benefits smart switches provide.

Turning on your lights just got a little bit easier. Today, Leviton debuted new connection capabilities with a wide range of Nest devices.

Here to help you reduce clutter in perhaps a rather surprising way is the new LightCam, a smart light bulb that doubles as a home security camera.

The latest products from Philips Lighting are also the very first products introduced as part of the company's outdoor range.

The Lucnt SRL1 is a smart bike light that claims to work just like a car brake light, making your bike ride safer for all involved. 

Wiz Connected Light has announced a new scheduled presets function on its smart lights to help make your home lighting even more customized.

GE Lighting is embracing the future of home technology with voice integration and smart light bulbs like the C by GE Sol.

Legrand is making a strong play to the smart home market at CES 2018 with new smart device-enabled lighting systems, switches, and controls.

Enjoy discounts of up to $150 on these brand-name smart home devices from manufacturers like Amazon and TP-Link.