Imagine walking into your home and having everything respond to your needs without lifting a finger. Lights adjust to the perfect brightness, blinds open or close to keep your home at the ideal ...

Setting up Home Assistant armed my home with the smarts I always wanted. The next logical step was to create automation using the different IoT devices. Still teething around my way with automation, I ...

Explore the groundbreaking features in Home Assistant 2025.9 that simplify smart home automation and enhance your daily ...

Discover the new features of Home Assistant 2025.9: a brand new experimental dashboard, simpler automations to create with a ...

Thanks to the ESP8266 and the ESP32, we’ve seen an explosion in DIY home automation projects recently. When it only takes $3 and a few lines of code to bring your gadgets onto the network, that’s ...

Smart home automations make gameday feel like a tailgate and three other ways you can take your smart home game up a level. Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas ...

Most smart hubs mention “scenes," a preset scheme you can set up with devices in that family—for instance, all the dining rooms lights going to 50% brightness for a dinner party. If you extend that ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Home Assistant, the powerful-yet-prickly smart home automation platform, is finally moving toward the mainstream ...