Comcast also launched a new remote for its X1 platform, which gives customers the ability to use voice commands to search for networks, shows and movies; set DVR recordings and search OnDemand.

Comcast may be best known as a cable company, but it is banking on remote-controlled door locks and cameras as well as other "smart-home" offerings to accelerate its growing home security business.

Comcast's Xfinity division has made some forays into the smart home world already: Xfinity Home started out as a home security product, but it now handles a number of common devices like locks ...

That’s a very different strategy for creating a smart home ecosystem than what virtually every other company attempting to do the same is doing. At CES 2018, you can’t go more than a few feet ...

Comcast is also adding smart home commands as well as natural-language methods of controlling the TV, in the hopes that its remote can serve as an alternative to a smart-home speaker like Google ...

Comcast's move in the smart home space is interesting. It's competing with Apple, Google, and Amazon, plus legacy players in the home automation space. While the more technical might look for ...

You can also control your smart devices through the Xfinity voice remotes, of which Herscovici says some 18 million have been shipped or provided to customers so far.

Yale Assure smart locks now work with Xfinity Home If you've got a Zigbee-enabled Yale Assure lock, you can now control it through Xfinity Home and your X1 voice remote.

GE-branded switches and smart plugs, plus Sengled Element Touch smart bulbs, can now be operated with voice commands. By Michael Brown Dec 15, 2016 8:00 am PST ...

NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Comcast Corp may be best known as a cable company, but it is banking on remote-controlled door locks and cameras as well as other "smart-home" offerings to accelerate ...