Gear Home Smart Home These are the best Amazon Black Friday deals on smart home gear and they're live right now Whether you're just starting your smart home setup or upgrading your current gear, these Amazon deals are worth taking advantage of. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. If you're thinking about starting a smart home system or just existing your current smart home gear, Black Friday is a great time to do it. But, you don't have to wait for Black Friday proper. These early Black Friday Amazon deals are live right now and they include some of the lowest prices we have seen this year.

Roku is expanding beyond home theater setups and into smart home devices. The initial batch of Roku Smart Home products, on which it collaborated with Wyze, includes a smart doorbell, cameras, smart bulbs, smart light strips and smart plugs. The company didn't reveal specs for the devices in advance, but previous reports suggested they are rebadged versions of Wyze products, including Cam v3, Cam Pan V2 and Bulb Color. The floodlight camera, video doorbell and indoor plug, for instance, look just like Wyze's own offerings. Roku's versions, however, will tie into its other products and services.

Black Friday is just a little over a week away, but you can already start snapping up worthwhile tech deals on Amazon. The gigantic e-tailer kicked off with discounts at the start of the month, and they're now starting to get good. In previous years, the earlier timing of Black Friday deals was cause for exasperation, but not in 2021. Getting a head start on the shopping is a prudent move this year, as warnings about potential inventory shortages and shipping delays due to supply chain issues have sounded for weeks. It doesn't hurt to ensure your holiday gifts will arrive on time.

Eufy Security--Anker's sub-brand spanning just about everything from video doorbells and security cameras to baby monitors--has now moved into the world of smart locks, hitting the market with a svelte piece of hardware that's loaded with features. And most of them work well. The Bluetooth-only lock offers a quite appealing design, decked out entirely in black. Adopting the now-standard upright rectangle design, Eufy keeps the chassis thin both inside and outside your door, where the escutcheons jut out from the surface only about 1.5 inches and 1 inch respectively. Installation is outlined in a detailed, printed manual, and the numbered boxes inside the kit help novices keep track of what's what.