Managing a smart home with individual apps and cloud platforms for each smart device can quickly become tedious and frustrating. Instead, you can bring everything under one roof using MQTT, a ...

This all works through the Home Assistant MQTT Discovery protocol, which is implemented in the extension. It reports to a designated MQTT topic with those entities grouped into one device called Opera ...

Thanks to MQTT servers which are either misconfigured or not protected with a password, it is easy peasy to hack a smart home. Another day, another IoT cautionary tale of how hackers can pwn thousands ...