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The best Cyber Monday deals on smart home gear

The best Cyber Monday deals on smart home gear

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Our pick of the biggest and best discounts on smart speakers, smart locks, smart lights, and more during Cyber Monday.

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Small Ecobee thermostat on a tan wall in between closet and staircase.
The Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium is down to $220 for Cyber Monday.
Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

If you missed out on grabbing a bargain on smart home gear this Black Friday, Cyber Monday is here to save you. There are still plenty of deep discounts to be found on smart speakers and smart displays as well as robot vacuums that you can control with a command and smart speaker and video doorbells whose live feeds you can see through one of those smart displays.

There are also some excellent deals on smart door locks, smart lights, and smart plugs, including some of the first discounts we’re seeing on Matter-compatible devices. So, read on for my picks of the best smart home gear bargains out there.

Best deals on smart speakers and smart displays

  • The brand new, very good Echo Show 8 (third-gen) smart display is just $104.99 at Amazon, down from $149.99. Featuring a Thread radio, Zigbee hub, and Matter controller capabilities, this is a great smart home hub and an excellent smart display. Read my review.
$50

The second-gen Nest Hub is Google’s smallest smart display, with a seven-inch touchscreen that can adjust itself to the lighting in your room. What’s new in the latest version is its ability to automatically track your sleep patterns with its Soli radar chip. Read our review.

  • The best Echo smart speaker, Amazon’s fourth-gen Echo is down to $54.99 from $99.99 at Amazon. With great sound, a sassy spherical look, and a Thread radio and Zigbee hub on board, this Alexa speaker packs a lot of power for a low price.
  • The fifth-gen Echo Dot for just $23 at Amazon is a spectacular deal for this great smart speaker. Pair two for stereo, and be very surprised you only spent $50 for room-filling sound (okay, a small room). Read my review.
  • The diddly little Echo Pop smart speaker is $18 at Amazon, which is 55 percent off its regular price of $40. Stock up and pop (get it?) a couple of these in places like a laundry room or garage for easy access to the Alexa smart assistant from any room in your home. Read my review.

Best prices for smart video doorbells

  • My pick for the best wired smart video doorbell camera, the Google Nest Doorbell camera (wired, second-gen), is $149.99, down from $179.99 at Amazon. Read my full review for more on why this is my top pick if you need eyes on your porch.
  • The new Ecobee Smart Doorbell Camera is down to $139.99 at Ecobee and Amazon from $159.99. This high-end doorbell is a great get at this price, featuring smart alerts for people and packages and a useful integration with Ecobee’s smart thermostats to show you who is at your door. It also works with Apple Home and Amazon Alexa. Read my review.
Arlo’s Essential wired video doorbell installed on a front door.
$73

Arlo’s wired video doorbell has excellent video quality, wide smart home compatibility, extensive smart alerts, and a square aspect ratio for spotting packages. It suffers from some connectivity issues, requires a subscription for recorded video, and doesn’t have 24/7 recording but does include a pre-roll feature.

  • The also excellent Ring Video Doorbell Pro 2 is $100 off at Amazon, down to $149.99. Great video quality and an impressive field of view make this a great buy, although smart home support is limited outside of Amazon Alexa.
  • The Ring Battery Doorbell Plus is my favorite option if you are looking for a battery-powered buzzer. It’s $120, down from $180 at Amazon, Best Buy, and The Home Depot.

Deals on smart security cameras

  • Blink’s Wired Floodlight Camera is 50 percent off, down to just $50 at Amazon. That’s a killer price for a wired outdoor camera with two adjustable LED lights on top, 1080p video, on-device processing of people alerts, and a local storage option through the Blink Sync Module 2.

Eve Outdoor Cam

$25028% off
$180

The Apple HomeKit Secure Video-compatible Eve Outdoor Cam is the best outdoor floodlight camera that works with Apple Home. Its 2,400 lumens can light up your yard and alert you when it spots people, animals, vehicles, and pets. Read our full review.

  • Google Home users can grab a bargain on the Google Nest Cam with Floodlights, which is $90 off at Best Buy and Amazon, down to $189.99. It’s the only floodlight camera that can record 24/7. Read my review.
  • TP-Link’s new wire-free magnetic mount Tapo security cameras are just $229.99 for a three-pack at Best Buy, down from $299.99. Easy to mount and with the option of local storage, the indoor / outdoor security cameras work with Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

Best deals on smart locks

  • The Level Touch (the best-looking smart lock because it doesn’t look like a smart lock) is seeing a very rare discount, down to $180 at Level from $329. This is the touch-to-open version; it doesn’t work with Home Key, but it does support Apple Home.
A touchscreen keypad on a door.

Yale Assure Lock 2

$26030% off
$182

The Yale Assure Lock 2 with Wi-Fi module is our pick for the best smart lock. It’s easy to install, simple to use, and works with all the major smart home platforms. The Bluetooth-only version (which doesn’t use the internet for connectivity) is just $120. Read our review.

  • The best retrofit smart lock, which means you don’t have to remove your existing lock, the August Wifi Smart Lock is just $149, down from $230 at Amazon. Read our review.

Best smart lighting deals

  • The Eve Light Strip is 50 63 percent off at Amazon, down to $39.95 $29.96, its lowest price ever. This full-color Wi-Fi LED light strip is one of the few to work with Apple’s HomeKit Adaptive Lighting.
  • Philips Hue White and Color Ambience Starter Kit with two bulbs and a bridge is $80, down from $130 at Best Buy. If you already have a bridge, snag three full-color bulbs for $80 at Best Buy. The Hue lights are an excellent addition to any smart home and some of the best smart lighting options you can buy. They work with all the major smart home platforms, and the bridge supports Matter.
Nanoleaf Matter bulb and light strip on a table
$15

Nanoleaf’s Matter Essentials bulbs work with every smart home platform as long as you have a Matter controller and Thread border router. They’re brighter, cheap, and have great colors, but they don’t support Apple’s Adaptive Lighting. Read our review.

  • Govee’s Matter-compatible M1 light strip is down to $40 from $60 at Amazon. Featuring addressable LED lighting and wide smart home compatibility thanks to Matter, the Govee light strip is bright, and its app is full of fun effects to jazz up any room. Read my full review.

Score a deal on these smart hubs, sensors, plugs, and more

  • The Aqara Smart Hub M2 is down to $42 at Amazon from $64. It allows you to connect all of Aqara’s Zigbee-based sensors, smart switches, and other accessories, many of which are also on sale today at Amazon. The hub supports Matter, so compatible devices also work in any Matter smart home platform.
  • The Thread-based Aqara Door and Window Sensor P2 is just $21, down from $30 at Amazon. This contact sensor can be set to trigger smart home routines, such as turning on the light when you open the door. It works directly with Matter, so it doesn’t require a hub and is compatible with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings.
Two TP-Link Kasa KP125M Matter smart plugs stacked on top of each other. They are white rectangular prisms with a three-prong outlet on the front face and three-prong plug on the rear face, TP-Link on the top face, and a power button on the right face.
$25

This well-rounded plug is easy to control in the Kasa app, works with all of the major smart home platforms, supports Matter, and offers additional features like energy monitoring.  

  • The Eve Energy smart plug is a simple way to smarten up lamps and other electrical fixtures. The Matter-over-Thread plug also supports energy monitoring and is down to $30 from $40 at Amazon.
  • TP-Link’s Tapo Smart Wi-Fi Light Switch with Matter is down to $12.99 from $24.99 at Best Buy, and the dimmer versions are just $15.99. Matter support means these can work with any compatible smart home platform to control your lights remotely and with scenes or automations.
  • Brilliant’s new Plug-In Smart Home Control panel, which can control your smart lights, locks, speakers, and more, is 10 percent off at $359.10 at Brilliant.tech, down from $399. The company’s entire line of hardwired smart switches / control panels is also 10 percent off. Read my review.
  • The Hoobs Box (Starter Kit) is down to $200 from $300. This starter kit is an easy way to get started with HomeBridge, a platform that lets you add incompatible devices such as Ring cameras and Nest devices into Apple’s HomeKit.
$220

The Ecobee Smart Thermostat Premium is an excellent option to add 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 new doorbell camera.

  • iRobot is discounting its newest Roomba robot vacuums, the Combo i5, j5, and the j9 series, for the first time by up to $400 at Amazon and iRobot.com. The i5 adds mopping and a sleeker self-empty base to the previous budget model, the i3, and is a great buy at $349 (down from $549.99). The Roomba Combo j5 Plus brings AI-powered obstacle avoidance to the lower-priced line for $499, down from $799.99. Both models can be bought without the self-empty base, too. The Combo i5 is $229, down from $349, and the Combo j5 is $348.99, down from $549.99.
  • The top-of-the-line models — the iRobot Roomba j9 Plus and Roomba Combo j9 Plus (which mops) — are down to $599 from $899 and $999 from $1,399, respectively, at Amazon and iRobot.com. They both have higher suction power than the j7 and a new Dirt Detective feature that learns which rooms are dirtiest in your home and cleans them first. The Combo j9 Plus is the first Roomba that can refill its own mop reservoir and empty its bin, and the new self-empty / fill dock has a stylish design that can act as a side table. Check out more robot vacuum deals in our Best Cyber Monday robot vacuum deals post.

Update November 27th, 3:20PM ET: Vetted existing deals, removed expired ones, and adjusted pricing.