However, Home Assistant is an outlier. While there are other applications designed to help you manage your smart home devices ...

The display I used here is the WT32-SC01 Plus, but any old cheap one will do, including the Cheap Yellow Display. So long as ...

As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...

XIAO Smart IR Mate, or XIAO IR Mate for short. At first glance, it looks like any other WiFi IR blasters, but what makes it ...

Using these self-hosted services has been made easier and more convenient thanks to their Android apps and shortcuts.

How do you solve the problem of growing a popular smart home platform committed to open-source, open-standard ideals into something bigger that stays true to those ideals? You create a foundation. At ...

I recently described how a recent flurry of smart home failures made me turn to Home Assistant, the increasingly polished DIY smart home platform that you can host yourself without relying on the ...

Google Assistant isn't what it used to be, and Gemini is something entirely different. Can these two coincide to fix the current state of the smart home? Chris Wedel Home Tech Editor Chris Wedel is a ...