The best Prime Day smart home deals we found

My favorite smart bulbs, this starter kit contains four 75W A19-sized E26 color bulbs and a Philips Hue Bridge — all you need to get going. The color-changing bulbs work with Matter, but you’ll find the best features in Hue’s app, which lets you set adaptive lighting and sleep/wake routines as well as fun, colorful options.

These are the best holiday lights money can buy and they are on sale in July, so now is the time to grab them. With beautiful colors, a nice selection of festive scenes, and an easy-to-use app, they are super reliable, come in two lengths, work with all the major smart home platforms, and are Matter-compatible.

The Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium is an excellent option for adding smarts and some style to your HVAC system. As well as being a smart way to control your energy use, the thermostat can also act as a video intercom for Ecobee’s excellent doorbell camera and an indoor air quality monitor.

This wireless Ring doorbell has great video quality, head-to-toe view, and speedy response times for a battery doorbell. It works with Amazon Alexa and can send alerts for people and packages with a Ring Home subscription.

With 1080p video, 2,600 lumens, and a 105dB siren for $50, this is a great budget buy. You sacrifice better video quality and tunable lighting over other options. But there’s person detection (with a monthly fee) and local recording (with additional hardware). It integrates with Amazon Alexa, has a nice design, and can be mounted horizontally or vertically.

The Blink Outdoor 4 security camera has 1080p recording, motion detection, night vision, two-way audio, and up to two years of battery life. That’s a lot for $40. There’s also the option of local recording with the Sync Module XR, and the camera supports on-device person detection (for a monthly fee).

Amazon’s Echo Show 8 is the company’s best smart display for using Alexa in your home. Spatial audio and room-adaptation software mean improved audio quality, and it can show different info on its eight-inch display based on whether you’re standing near or farther away. Read our review.

The fifth-gen Echo Dot touts a temperature sensor, better sound, and faster response time than the prior model. It can also act as an extender for your Eero Wi-Fi system. Read our review.

Amazon’s Echo Spot smart speaker / alarm clock has a 2.83-inch squared-off display for showing the time, weather, music playback, and other bits of info you may want at your bedside. Unlike the original Spot, there’s no camera to worry about having in your bedroom — though it does have a mutable microphone for Alexa voice controls. Read our review.

With a neat ability to remove and reattach its mop pads, the Dreame X40 solves the problem of vacuuming carpets (with 12,000Pa suction power) while also mopping hard floors. Its mops can also swing out and under low furniture, getting where most bots can’t reach.

The Eufy 11S Max is a super slim, repairable bump-and-roll bot with a large 600ml bin and three cleaning levels. Its biggest selling point for some, however, is that it lacks Wi-Fi, meaning you don’t have to fiddle with an app.

The Deebot X8 Pro Omni remains our favorite robot vacuum / mop. It represents a welcome return to form for Ecovacs’ flagship line, with great obstacle avoidance, a small dock, and a convenient self-cleaning brush system.

$360 is a steal for this excellent robot vacuum mop, which, while an older model, does a great job and works with a neat battery-powered water refill dock that makes it the most hands-free robovac we’ve tested. A separate auto-empty dock takes care of the dust. It’s big and loud and lacks some features found on high-end robots, but it does what it’s supposed to do without costing a fortune.