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 ...

Home Assistant's best feature is a lot simpler than that: a unified dashboard.

Imagine walking into your home and having it not just respond to your commands but truly understand your needs. Picture a smart home that offers thoughtful suggestions, like reminding you to grab an ...

Do you know your blueprints from your traces?

What comes to mind when you think of a smart home? Wi-Fi enabled light bulbs, video doorbells, cloud-connected robot vacuums, or smart fridges perhaps? Brands like Google/Nest or everything enabled ...

Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. Let’s turn this smart house into a smart home. is a senior reviews editor who’s been testing tech since 2007. Previously at Wirecutter and Maximum PC.

Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

As we set out to build smarter homes, another part of our lives becomes reliant on the internet. From the dumb home devices we upgrade with a smart plug to the smart speakers that respond to our voice ...