These days, it seems like everything, even your usual everyday-use objects such as refrigerators and plugs, can be enhanced with smart home technology. Many grueling day-to-day tasks that used to take ...

Home Assistant is free and open source home automation software that allows you to control and interact with smart home gadgets. You can install the software on a ...

The Raspberry Pi might sound like dessert, but it's actually a credit card–sized computer changing the world of DIY tech. First launched in 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it was designed to make ...

Smart home frameworks, broadly speaking, are meant to give you a greater degree of control over the features and functions of your home via interconnected devices. No matter how prevalent smart home ...

Single-board computers, or SBCs, are quite popular among students, enthusiasts, and developers who love to tinker with tech. One of the most common SBCs that most people use for this purpose is the ...

As voice recognition and natural language parsing have improved so has the availability of digital personal assistants, from Bixby to Alexa or Cortana to Google Assistant, all the major tech companies ...

Have you ever come home from work wishing you didn't have to juggle bags of groceries and fumble for the light switches? You could easily make your house smarter, and that doesn't require spending ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. There's an XKCD comic about unifying, catch-all standards accidentally contributing to the proliferation of all kinds of protocols, ...

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 ...

Building a smart home begins with selecting the right ecosystem, and two prominent contenders in this space are Home Assistant and Homey Pro. Both platforms offer distinct features, advantages, and ...