The Best Smart Home Deals for December 2024

Even though the holiday shopping season is coming to an end, it’s still a good time to check out sales on smart home devices. Whether it’s picking up a smart thermostat to keep things warm and cozy, Bluetooth-enabled bulbs for winter mood lighting, or cameras for keeping holiday packages secure, we’ve got big price cuts on all the best technology to automate your home and make it smarter.

Smart home tech is in its mature era, and if you haven’t started automating your house there’s no time like the presen. Below, you’ll find significant smart home discounts from Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, selected to include only well-reviewed products from trusted manufacturers. Smart thermostats can help cut your energy bills, smart plugs automate your additional appliances, and a smart hub or display connects them all while letting you listen to music and catch up on the news. Here’s our rundown of the best smart home tech on sale this month.

Smart Hub And Speaker Deals

Here’s a nice price on a wall-mounted smart hub that can integrate all of your appliances and accounts into a single point of contact. In our review of the Amazon Echo Hub, lead analyst Will Greenwald said that it was “a great way for managing all of your smart home devices, and significantly more affordable than many competing products.” The slim and lightweight screen displays readouts that are easy to customize, and both dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth make it simple to get connected. It even has a proximity sensor to wake up when you walk up to it.

In our review of the Echo Show 8, we gave it an Editors’ Choice award, with writer Will Greenwald saying that the smart display “is a useful smart display for virtually any room in your home,” praising its surprisingly potent sound, fast performance and simple setup. With the onboard Alexa voice assistant, you can easily communicate with your smart devices, stream from Prime Video, listen to podcasts, radio and more. This is a significant price cut during Amazon’s pre-Black Friday sale, so jump on it now.

Smart Plug And Power Deals

Not every appliance in your house can be Wi-Fi compatible, but the addition of a smart plug lets you reap the benefits of modern technology anyways. The Kasa EP10 is a simple intermediary device that lets you control the flow of power with your phone or your voice. In our review, we said that it was “an affordable way to turn ordinary appliances into smart ones,” and it’s simple to install and schedule.

For something a little more robust, this massive extender can handle nine different devices with ease. With three smart outlets, three standard outlets and three USB ports, you’re able to charge devices and manage appliances with one handy unit. Controllable through Tapo, Apple HomeKit, Amazon Alexa, or Google Home apps, it’s simple to set up and attaches securely with a mounting screw and stabilizing post.

Looking for more smart plug and power strip options? Then look no further!

Smart Lightbulb Deals

With a smart bulb, you can transform any ordinary light fixture into a colorful and useful part of your smart home. The TP-Link Tapo smart bulb is a reliable low-cost option that produces 16 million colors thanks to a RGBW true-white LED with a 180 degree beam angle. Using the Tapo smart app, you can set schedules and timers as well as monitor energy use in real time, and the bulbs integrate with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for easy voice controls. Each bulb is rated for over 25,000 hours of use.

Also, allow us to illuminate you on the best smart LED light bulbs of 2024.

If you’re replacing bulbs in bulk, this package deal will save you some serious cash. Daybetter smart bulbs are very well-regarded in the Amazon reviews, with people saying they deliver reliable color and long life with easy control through the Tuya app, or through Amazon Alexa devices. The big draw here is that they’re absurdly inexpensive, especially with a $20 coupon on the page.

Smart Thermostat Deals

Figuring out the best interface for a smart thermostat can be a challenge, because the old-school dial, while limited, was also so easy to understand. In our review of the Sensi Touch 2 smart thermostat, we said that “support for room sensors, dual-band Wi-Fi, and historic usage reports make the Sensi Touch 2 an excellent choice for a smart thermostat,” praising its clear screen with easy-to-understand options and simple integration with Alexa and Google voice control systems. Emerson estimates that by installing and using it you can cut as much as 23% off of your heating and cooling bills.

We gave an Editors’ Choice award to the Nest Learning Thermostat in our review, saying that it “offers all of the cool learning and auto-scheduling features that made the earlier models so popular, and brings a few nice improvements, including a slimmer design, a larger LCD, Bluetooth support, and geofencing technology.” Everything you want from a smart HVAC controller is here, with simple installation and easy integration to a variety of networks. The Farsight feature monitors when you enter a room and quickly shows you the current temperature.

Chill out and then check out our list of the best smart thermostats of 2024.

Smart Home Security Camera Deals

It’s not the most technologically advanced security camera on the market, but at this price you can blanket your home with them and still have cash left over for sandwiches. Integrating seamlessly with Alexa and Google Home, it delivers reliable 1080p video day or night, delivers notifications for movement and noise and has a two-way emergency siren.

If you’re on a budget but want to keep tabs on a dog, heavily-trafficked indoor area or anything else, day or night, this is a competent little camera with a lot of nice features. 1080p day/night video is clear and sharp, with options to either store video in the cloud or internally on an SD card. Swipe up, down, left and right with the phone app to pan and tilt the device and focus on important elements of the scene. Real-time motion alerts send notifications to your phone when they trigger up to 30 feet away from the camera.

Check out our rundown of smart security cameras we’ve extensively tested.

This is by far the deepest smart home price cut we’ve seen in a while, a staggering $419 off a complete outdoor home security system that will cover your property day and night. In our review of the Arlo 4 Spotlight Camera, we said that it was “a high-resolution, weather-resistant security camera that not only captures motion-triggered video, but casts a bright light on whatever is moving around on your property” and gave it an Editors’ Choice award. This bundle includes three cameras with anti-theft mounts, four rechargeable batteries, a charging station and a yard sign. Just one camera retails for $120, so you’re getting a huge deal here.

You’re not going to find a discount this good anywhere on a security camera that contributing editor John Delaney called “a smart choice for Alexa-automated smart homes” in our review. This bundle of three Blink Outdoor 4 cameras is discounted half off from retail, and you get sharp 1080p video with a wide field of view, simple installation that doesn’t require any additional wiring, and long battery life. An optional Blink subscription enables real-time motion alerts sent to your phone or smart device, as well as cloud-based video storage.

Smart Lock Deals

The Ultraloq Bolt Fingerprint smart lock is our top choice, taking home an Editors’ Choice award in our review for its massive feature set, simple installation and effortless integration with third-party platforms including Alexa, Google, and Apple HomeKit. With built-in Wi-Fi, it doesn’t require a separate hub to operate, and the robust biometric scanners can register up to 100 fingerprints. You can set up time-based automatic locking, proximity-based operation, and even adding junk digits to the front and back of your PIN to trick nosy neighbors. It’s an all-in-one lock that’s 34% off right now.

Unlike other smart locks that require you to fully swap out your deadbolt, this device connects to most modern deadbolts on the inside of your door for control via Wi-Fi with no bridge device needed. You can use the app to share access on a permanent or temporary basis, there’s a geolocation-based auto lock/unlock function (paired with a phone or Apple watch) and the device works with Alexa and Google Assistant plus Apple HomeKit, unlike many other devices. The silver or matte black housing looks much more like a standard door lock and you can still keep your existing house keys if you want (just in case).

Shut the front door! Here are some of our picks for the best smart locks for 2024.

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