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

Have you ever imagined a home that anticipates your every need—lights that adjust to your mood, a thermostat that syncs with the weather, or security systems that work seamlessly in the background?

Home Assistant 2025.9 has been released with an experimental new home dashboard. The update is also coming with a reimagined automation editor and a bunch of new features for the versatile tile card, ...

For those who are new to Smart IR, it’s a device that acts as an infrared (IR) control hub. The idea is to let you control ...

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 has re-enabled volume control for grouped speakers in the Google Home app and through Google Assistant. Google has re-enabled volume control for grouped speakers in the Google Home app and ...

I've been buying and tinkering with smart home devices for years. As a result, my home network resembles a kind of Model UN of devices, bridges, protocols, assistants, and apps. I try to broker ...