Setting up Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi gives full control with no subscription fees or cloud dependency. Home Assistant supports various integrations beyond lights and plugs, stays open-source, ...

By far the most important “setting” of all is turning on Home Assistant backups. This is one of the first things you should ...

Have you ever felt like your smart home setup is more chaotic than convenient? With countless devices, apps, and cloud services vying for your attention, managing it all can feel overwhelming. Enter ...

Imagine walking into your home, and with a single voice command or tap on your phone, the lights dim, your favorite playlist starts, and the thermostat adjusts to the perfect temperature, all without ...

If you’ve got an RTL-SDR compatible receiver, you’ve probably used it for picking up signals from all kinds of weird things. Now, [Jaron McDaniel] has built a tool to integrate many ...

The brand-new Home Assistant Yellow box had been collecting dust in my “gadgets to install” cardboard box for four months, with me randomly sighing and proclaiming to my husband, “We should set up ...

Say goodbye to (some) smart home woes. New user-facing features are coming to Matter that will make it easier than ever to set up your smart home and circumvent some of the more finicky, frustrating ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Setting up smart home automations can feel overwhelming, and at times, downright ridiculous. You might wonder if you really need a machine ...

Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few ...