For a long time, a Raspberry Pi was a common suggestion for people looking to set up their first Home Assistant server. While it wasn't perfect, it was good enough for many setups. Sadly, the ...

Home Assistant has genuinely transformed the smart homes of many of the XDA staff, whether we've got it installed on a NAS or other hardware. I started my journey with it installed on a Raspberry Pi, ...

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

SwitchBot sent me its AI Hub, two Pan/Tilt Cam Plus 3K cameras, and its AI Art Frame for review. SwitchBot makes seemingly anything and everything for smart-home integration, from door locks and ...

My house is incredibly neat and organized, but when it comes to my digital life, the word "hoarder" comes to mind. If that sounds like you, a network attached storage device (NAS) is the perfect ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is a product whose appeal is easier to understand when viewed as a "small Linux PC with GPIO" rather than just an electronics hobbyist board. The official page claims speeds 2-3 ...

People have been attempting to turn Kindles into more than e-readers since the first devices came out nearly two decades ago. The e-ink displays are low-power and great for displaying information that ...

ZigBee CC2652 Raspberry Pi Coordinator - a ZigBee Coordinator designed for the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi running Z-Stack Firmware 3.x - thanks to Koenkk. The used CC2652P is the current generation of ...

Even with Amazon’s Echo Show devices running Linux in the form of the Android-derived FireOS, using them for non-Amazon approved purposes can be a chore at best. In the case of the Echo Show 8 even ...

Stop Paying for Google Drive. I Built My Own Home Storage Cloud Using a Raspberry Pi Hate paying for cloud storage, but not ready to invest in a network-attached storage device? Here's how I turned my ...