Here’s what nobody selling you a camera wants to say out loud: you shouldn’t have to pay a monthly fee just to watch your own front porch. Prime Day throws a thousand camera deals at you, and most are either cheap plastic that quits by winter or bait for a subscription you’ll be renting forever. […]
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The first day of Prime Day is always chaotic. We’ve waded through the noise to find the actual discounts worth your money right now. Note: Amazon’s pricing algorithms move fast, and prices can change in a matter of minutes during Prime Day. Availability and discounts will fluctuate rapidly. We’ll be tracking these ten deals throughout
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Wiring a video doorbell used to mean a hard choice. You could get steady power or smart-home flexibility, but not both. In 2026, that is changing. Power over Ethernet, or PoE, now shows up on doorbells that cost less than $100. The first Matter-certified home cameras are shipping too. And nonstop recording no longer locks
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Buy the alarm, not the brand. That’s where we land after pricing all three this month, because SimpliSafe, Ring, and Nest now solve three different problems while wearing the same security-camera costume. SimpliSafe guards the perimeter, Ring guards the doorway, and Nest watches the room before handing the alarm to ADT. Pick wrong and you’re
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For most of Matter’s short life, the smart home standard had a glaring blind spot: cameras and doorbells. Lights, plugs, locks, thermostats, blinds: all good. The devices most people actually picture when they hear “smart home security,” not so much. That changed on November 20, 2025, when the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) finalized Matter 1.5
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The “smart home tax” is shrinking. Between Blink’s first sub-$50 2K doorbell, IKEA’s full Matter relaunch, and Philips’ new WiZ-based budget line that all dropped in May 2026, you can now build a real, voice-controlled, multi-room setup without ever crossing the $50/device line. These ten picks, cross-checked against current Amazon pricing and May 2026 launches,
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Memorial Day weekend gets sold as the best smart home sale of the spring, and the carts fill up fast. The catch is that most of what’s discounted phones home to a cloud account, a paid subscription, or a server in another country. When that pipeline blinks, your lights, locks, and cameras blink with it.
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For years, if your friend asked which security camera to buy, you said Ring. That answer’s starting to feel dated. The default has shifted, and the shift didn’t come from where you’d expect. Price: $99 (Discounted from $149.99) Where to Buy: Amazon It came from a $90 camera most American buyers haven’t heard of. TP-Link’s
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Today is Earth Day. Every April 22, we get a wave of “green” tech, and a lot of it is just marketing. Recycled boxes around a gadget that still eats 40 watts on standby. A “carbon neutral” sticker backed by shaky offsets. A bamboo sheet glued to the same plastic shell as last year. The
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Xiaomi isn’t just making phones anymore. The company’s smart home lineup has quietly grown into one of the most complete ecosystems in consumer tech, covering everything from robot vacuums with triple-camera AI systems to espresso machines that wouldn’t look out of place in a specialty coffee shop. While brands like Google and Amazon grab smart
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Four out of five security cameras that launched in Q1 2026 come with zero subscription fees. The fifth charges just $5 a month. That alone would have been unusual a year ago. But these cameras also run on solar power, most pack two lenses instead of one, and handle smart detection right on the device
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The wireless outdoor security camera market looks completely different than it did two years ago. Solar charging has gone from novelty to expectation, subscription-free AI detection is no longer a budget compromise, and 4K resolution has trickled down into cameras that cost less than a decent dinner out. A few of the cameras on this
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The baby monitor aisle used to be simple. You picked up a box with a camera and a screen, maybe debated whether you needed night vision, and called it a day. That version of the market still exists, technically. It just happens to sit inside a category that Renub Research now values at $1.22 billion
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Floodlight cameras are great at catching porch pirates and lighting up dark driveways. They’re not so great at making installation painless. Most of them need a hardwired electrical connection, which means you’re either hiring an electrician or getting creative with extension cords that weren’t meant to live outdoors. Reolink’s new Solar Floodlight Cam takes the
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Every smart home camera on the market right now forces you to pick an ecosystem first and figure out compatibility later. Aqara just changed that equation with the Aqara Camera Hub G350, the first indoor security camera to earn Matter certification, which means it can work across Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung
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Something shifted in the sub-$100 gadget space this year, and it’s not the usual incremental creep of slightly better versions of last year’s budget picks. The products landing in this price range now have features that sat firmly in the $200-plus tier barely two years ago: full smart TV platforms inside pocket projectors, hot-swappable mechanical
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NEWS – We keep hearing about AI in the cloud, but SwitchBot’s new AI Hub flips that model. It runs a Vision Language Model directly on the device, processes up to eight camera feeds locally, and hosts Home Assistant without needing a separate server. That challenges the assumption that serious AI work requires cloud infrastructure.
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ARTICLE – Most budget security cameras cap out at 2K resolution, which is the quiet compromise between affordability and image clarity. You get enough pixels to confirm motion, identify that someone is near your front door, and review general activity patterns. What you don’t get is the ability to read text on a package label
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REVIEW – For someone who has cameras covering every room of my apartment to keep an eye on my pup Addy, I wasn’t really in the market for another security device. But I live on a street in Seattle with frequent vehicle break-ins, and my truck sits exposed every night. That said, when the chance
REVIEW – Hello, my name is Julie and I’m a security camera addict. There, I said it and I embrace it. I love having lots of cameras on my property. I have five PoE cameras that I run through my Synology Surveillance Station, and for areas where I can’t run Ethernet cables, I have several
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