Three weekend builds that turn a Pi into a practical Home Assistant companion ...

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 ...

Solving a problem that plagued DIY makers for years.

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 ...

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 ...

Home Assistant can run on various platforms, but which do our readers favor? We asked in a recent poll, and here are the results.