The Complete List Of All Smart Home Devices (From 2008 Onwards)

Smart home tech has exploded in popularity over the past decade, and it’s sometimes hard to keep track of every new product which is available – especially when ‘Google Home’ rebranded to ‘Nest’, or when Amazon Echo are up to their 4th generation of certain devices!

So that’s where we come in! We have spent ages compiling a list of all smart home devices across a range of categories (from voice assistants to smart doorbells) which you can check out below.

Voice Assistants/Virtual Assistants

All Amazon Echo Devices – from 2014 to present

The Amazon Echo range of smart devices seemed to really help the popularity of voice/virtual assistants, with Amazon being one of the first to release these devices in 2014:

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All Google Home devices – from 2016 onwards

Google released their first smart assistant – the Google Home – at the end of 2016, by which time Amazon had already released 3 different variations. Nonetheless, it was better late than never and Google’s access to a huge amount of information (the internet, via Google search) meant that the Google Home speaker was a pretty useful device for asking questions to.

Apple HomePod devices from 2018

Apple are a late entrant into the smart speaker market, with their one and only product launched in early 2018. Rumors of a HomePod 2 continue to swirl, with current thinking pegging it at a 2020 release.

Lenovo Smart tech from 2017 to present

Lenovo’s smart tech range uses Google Assistant under the hood to provide the smart functionality. Lenovo then manufacture the item and speakers.

Sonos: 2017 onwards

Sonos has been a staple for music purists, with a market leading set of speakers. So it was welcome when they released the Sonos One, which has a great speaker along with Amazon Alexa, Apple AirPlay2 and Google Assistant integration!

Sonos then released a Sonos One SL in 2019 which doesn’t have microphones and hence no Amazon Alexa nor Google Assistant integration. This means that it’s not a smart speaker… even though it’s still marketed under the ‘Sonos One’ smart branding. It’s instead controllable via their app.

Smart Thermostats

Smart thermostats hit the scene in 2011 and captured people’s imagination: with the simple dream of being able to ensure your home is toasty warm (when travelling home) via your smartphone.

Every Nest Thermostat listed: from 2011

ecobee Smart Thermostats

ecobee are a Canadian smart device manufacturer who are selling a range of successful smart thermostats across Canada and North America:

All Hive Smart Thermostats

Hive, a British company, produce smart thermostats which are most popular in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.

Emerson Sensi Wi-Fi Thermostats

Honeywell Smart Thermostats

Smart Lighting

Philips Hue – Smart Bulbs list from 2012 onwards

Philips Hue were the first range of smart bulbs to hit the market, and they are produced by Signify N.V. It integrates with all the major smart home devices and technologies including Amazon Echo, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings and more. Hue have a substantial number of individual bulb types out, so I list the main differences via their ‘Gen’ iterations below:

LIFX Smart Bulbs

Whilst Philips got a lot of early attention, LIFX – an Australian company founded in 2012 – slowly but surely rolled out a large smart bulb product range which integrates with SmartThing, Logitech Harmony, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana and Mycroft.ai.

Smart Doorbells

All Ring Doorbell Models from 2012

We’ve all seen the adverts: someone comes near the front door, and the home owner’s smartphone rings up a video of that person (and allows you to speak to the visitor). Awesome! Ring are owned by Amazon and thus have great integration with the Echo range.

Nest Hello Doorbells

Nest, a Ring rival, were bought out by Google in 2014 but only fully integrated into their hardware ecosystem in 2018.

Smart Plugs

All TP-Link Kasa Models

SmartThings Wi-Fi Smart Plug

Samsung are a late entrant into the smart plug market, with their only smart plug released in 2019:

Smart Door Locks

A list of all Yale Smart Locks

British lock company moved into smart locks in 2016, before launching them in America in 2017:

All August Home Locks

August are a San Francisco based home automation company whose most successful products are their smart home locks.

Indoor Cameras

Wyze Cam Device Directory

All Blink XT Models Released

The second generation of this popular smart camera was suspended by Amazon US’ store due to some reliability concerns, but this can still be purchased in Amazon UK’s store.

Ring Smart Camera Models

Ring, owned by Amazon, started releasing Ring cameras in 2015 – but it was only in 2018 where they really started to gain traction for indoor smart cams, due to the Alexa integration.

Eufy Cameras

Arlo cameras

Smoke/CO Detectors

Nest Protect

Nest started releasing their Protect device (a two-in-one smoke and CO detector) back in 2013, making it one of the earlier smart home devices.

First Alert/One Link

First Alert produce a range of smoke, CO and two-in-one detectors under their own brand and the ‘One Link’ brand.